Contents -- List of contributors -- John J. Joughin and Simon Malpas - The new aestheticism: an introduction -- 1 Thomas Docherty - Aesthetic education and the demise of experience -- 2 Jonathan Dollimore - Art in time of war: towards a contemporary aesthetic -- 3 Ewa Plonowska Ziarek - Mimesis in black and white: feminist aesthetics, negativity and semblance -- 4 Andrew Bowie - What comes after art? -- 5 Simon Malpas - Touching art: aesthetics, fragmentation and community -- 6 Howard Caygill - The Alexandrian aesthetic -- 7 Mark Robson - Defending poetry, or, is there an early modern aesthetic? -- 8 John J. Joughin - Shakespeare's genius: Hamlet, adaptation and the work of following -- 9 Robert Eaglestone - Critical knowledge, scientific knowledge and the truth of literature -- 10 Jay Bernstein - Melancholy as form: towards an archaeology of modernism -- 11 Gary Banham - Kant and the ends of criticism -- 12 Andrew Benjamin - Including transformation: notes on the art of the contemporary -- 13 Joanna Hodge - Aesthetics and politics: between Adorno and Heidegger -- Index.