1 “... critical problems and close readings, Krieger reviews the aesthetic tradition as it has evolved from Kant...”

2 “... of them that foreshadow the current debates: in the first a conflict between the social and the aesthetic...”

3 “... but argues that more recent theories radically question the political and aesthetic assumptions...”

4 “... of consciousness as a main criterion of poetic art. Defining a "humanistic aesthetic" as it has been viewed since...”