Introduction
Mood
Naming by Misnaming
From Heidegger to Aristotle
A Philosophical Quartet
Part 1 The Poetics of Affect
1 Affect, Self-Affection, Attunement
Touch
Betrayal, or, Involuted Rage
Poe’s Raven and Freud’s Jokes
The Ontic Jolt
2 Mood and Trope in the Lyric
Passions of the Signifier
Baudelaire’s Spleen
Pathos and Form
Li-Young Lee’s Fury
I, Not I
3 Sensation and Being
Deleuze’s Rat
The Artwork between Heidegger and Deleuze
Three Theses on Art
Shakespearean Aside
Language, Art, Truth
Part 2 Feeling and the Vocation of Criticism
4
This is beautiful, or, The Urge to Persuade
Kant despite Nietzsche
Feeling for Others
Aesthetic “Regimes” and Artistic “Paradigms”
Tino Sehgal, or, Criticism’s Outer Edge
Rineke Djikstra, or, Criticism’s Inner Edge
Nietzschean Creativity
5
Angst/Rausch/Riss
Nietzsche after Heidegger
Rift-Design
“Hymn to Intellectual Beauty”
Jorie Graham, or, The Thing Called Form
Anecdote of the Jug
6 The Fate of Beauty
Mont Blanc
Anthropos–Physis–Technē
Kant’s Affects
Form and Formlessness
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index