This volume provides a collection of classic and contemporary readings in Continental aesthetics. Spanning Romanticism through modernism to post-modernism, it includes landmark texts that have sparked renewed interest in aesthetics, including work from Schiller, Kant, Nietzsche, Hegel, Heidegger, Sartre, Lukacs, Habermas, Foucault, Kristeva and Derrida. The range and significance of the primary sources collected here, together with the editors' instructive introductions and well-informed bibliography, make this volume appealing to interested in aesthetics or philosophy of art.