Table of Contents:
  • Can our values be objective? On ethics, aesthetics, and progressive politics / Satya P. Mohanty
  • The pragmatics of the aesthetic / Giles Gunn
  • Aesthetics and cultural studies / Winfried Fluck
  • The resistance to cultural studies / John Carlos Rowe
  • Desegregating American literary studies / Shelley Fisher Fishkin
  • Difference and disciplinarity / Robyn Wiegman
  • Doing justice to C.L.R. James's Mariners, renegades and castaways / Donald E. Pease
  • Mumbo jumbo, theory, and the aesthetics of wholeness / Johnnella E. Butler
  • Aesthetics again? The pleasures and the dangers / Paul Lauter
  • "Every man knows where and how beauty gives him pleasure": beauty discourse and the logic of aesthetics / Amelia Jones
  • The aesthetics of wounding: trauma, self-representation, and the critical voice / Kathleen McHugh
  • Beautiful identities: when history turns state's evidence / Chon A. Noriega
  • Toward a pluralist aesthetics / Heinz Ickstadt.