Labors of Imagination: Aesthetics and Political Economy from Kant to Althusser

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i n d e x aber, 102, 108–10 absolute reversal, 139 ad hominem proof, 148 Adorno, Theodor W., 10, 12, 107, 162, 172, 174–75 on ideology, 151–52 ‘‘On Lyric Poetry and Society,’’ 96 ‘‘Parataxis,’’ 197n46, 199n62 aesthetic judgment, 14, 16, 17–19, 181n13 aesthetic striving, 30 Aesthetica (Baumgarten), 15 aesthetics, 15–16, 180–81n7 Alcuin, 88, 89 Althusser, Louis, 156–60, 162, 163, 164–65 amen, 208n20. See also ‘‘So be it’’ ‘‘Andenken’’ (Hölderlin), 106–9 Andersen, Eric, 36 Aristotle, 130 asceticism, 39, 41, 185n57 Austin, J. L., 186n64 ‘‘Autobiography of De-Facement’’ (de Man), 84 Balibar, Étienne, 150, 206n60 Barthes, Roland, 152–56, 160–61, 163 Baudelaire, Charles, 166 Baudrillard, Jean, 166, 205n49, 209n24 Bauer-Wabnegg, Walter, 183–84n37 Baumgarten, Alexander, 5, 15, 16, 180–81n7 223 beauty, 19–20, 29, 30–31 Beißner, Friedrich, 97, 102, 199n50, 199n64 Bénamou, Michel, 183n33 Benjamin, Walter, 36 Bentham, Jeremy, 115–18 Berman, Russell, 195–96n40 body art, 37 Bourdieu, Pierre, 128, 178n3 Brecht, Bertolt, 10–12 Cannan, Edwin, 124 Capital (Marx), 131, 133, 138, 144 capitalism, 132 categorical imperative, 48–49 commodity equivalence, language of, 138 communication, 20–21, 26, 29 communism, 143 comparison, hyperbolic, 82 consciousness, 134–36, 141–44, 151 context, 2–3 contracts, 122–26 counterpositing, 80–82 Craig, Gordon, 190n30 Critique of Judgment (Kant), 14–15, 21, 26, 29, 31 Critique of Political Economy, A (Marx), 133 Critique of Pure Reason (Kant), 5–6, 13, 16, 48, 50, 54, 77 Dada, 36 de Man, Paul, 84, 200n65 224 Index Derrida, Jacques, 182n15 Discourse on Inequality (Rousseau), 24–25 dramas, 10–11, 52 Elmer, Jonathan, 209n32 ‘‘Essay on the Concept of Republicanism ’’ (Schlegel), 29 exchanges, 84, 124–26, 127 expectations, 123 Ferris, David, 198n56 Feuerbach, Ludwig, 143 Fichte, J. G., 6–7, 17, 24, 29, 77–79, 194n15 fiction, voice of, 85–86 fictitious entities, 116–17 Fish, Stanley, 2–3, 175 forgiveness, 43–44, 45 Foucault, Michel, 203–4n26 Foundation of the Metaphysics of Morals (Kant), 14, 48, 55 freedom, 4, 5, 42, 47–48, 81, 103–4, 129 Freud, Sigmund, 200–201n66 George, Stefan, 10 German Ideology, The (Marx), 129, 132–34, 140, 141–42, 148–49, 157 God, voice of, 89–90, 91–92, 95 Goldberg, RoseLee, 35 Gotha Program (Marx), 129 Greenblatt, Stephen, 3 Grundisse (Marx), 129, 144 Grundsätze, 78, 81 Guillory, John, 177n2 Hamilton, Alexander, 89 Haverkamp, Anselm, 199–200n64, 201n75 Hegel, Georg, 16, 50, 138–40, 142 Heidegger, Martin, 23, 179n15, 181n13 Hellingrath, Norbert von, 196n43 Hirschmann, Albert O., 202n3 history and literature, 2–3, 75–76 History of the Modern Fact, A (Poovey), 120 Hölderlin, Friedrich, 75, 78–82, 86–87 ‘‘Mnemosyne,’’ 96–106 ‘‘Remembrance,’’ 106 ‘‘Voice of the People,’’ 93 Hume, David, 123, 126 hunger artist, 185n53 Hunger Artist, A (Kafka), 31–33, 34, 38–44 ‘‘hyperbole of hyperboles,’’ 81, 83, 96, 140 ideology, 150–51, 172 Althusser and, 157–59 of obviousness, 163 values of, 150–51 ‘‘Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses ’’ (Althusser), 156–65 imagination, 5–7, 17, 178–79n15 imperatives, 49, 51, 165 interest, 136, 202n1, 202n3 interesting, concept of the, 22–26, 28–30, 32–33, 182–83n29 interests, ideology of, 13–14, 112–14, 136 interpellation, 160–61, 164 Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation, An (Bentham), 116–18 ISA essay, 156–65 Jacobs, Carol, 59 Jakobson, Roman, 165, 209n23 Jevons, William Stanley, 130–31 judgment, 189n24 Kafka, Franz, 31–34, 38–44 Kant, Immanuel, 4–8, 13–16, 77, 114 on beauty, 31 Critique of Judgment, 4, 14–15, 21, 26, 29, 31 Critique of Pure Reason, 5–6, 13, 16, 48, 50, 54, 77 Fichte’s theory of positing and, 77–78 Foundation of the Metaphysics of Morals, 14 on imagination, 178–79n15 imperatives, 49–50 Index 225 on judgment, 189n24 ‘‘Perpetual Peace,’’ 85 on self-determination, 48–49 on taste, 16 Kaprow, Allan, 36–37, 184n46 Kaufmann, David, 177n2 Kierkegaard, Søren, 182–83n29 Kleist, Heinrich von, 52, 75, 165 Klopstock, Friedrich, 91–93 labor, 119, 130–31, 203–4n26 division of, 118–22, 127, 132–34, 204n27 power, 128–30, 144–46, 166, 207n92 theory of, 128 Lacoue-Labarthe, Philippe, 193n11 language, 44, 127–28, 139–40, 156, 164– 65, 172–73 of beauty, 19–20 of commodity equivalence, 137 consciousness and, 141–44 expectations and, 123 fictitious entities and, 116–17 myth and, 155–56 obviousness and...