Aesthetics and Modernity * Aesthetics and "Post-Modernity" *Part I: Modern Philosophy and the Emergence of Aesthetic Theory: Kant* Self-Consciousness, Knowledge and Freedom * The Unification of Nature * The Purpose of Beauty * The Limits of Beauty *Part II: German Idealism and Early German Romanticism* Thinking the Infinite * A "New Mythology" *Part III: Reflections on the Subject: Fichte, Holderlin and Novalis* Self and Other * Fichte * Holderlin * Novalis *Part IV: Schelling: Art and the "Organ of Philosophy"* Nature and Philosophy * The Development of Consciousness * Intuition and Concept * The "Organ of Philosophy" * Mythology, Art and Modernity * Mythology, Language and Being *Part V: Hegel: The Beginning of Aesthetic Theory and the End of Art* Which Hegel? * Self-Recognition * Music and the Idea * Language, Consciousness and Being * The Idea as Sensuous Appearance * The Prose of the Modern World * Philosophy and Art after Hegel *Part VI: Schleiermacher: Art and Interpretation* Linguistic * The "Art of Disagreement" * Immediate Self-Consciousness * Art as Free Production: "Individual" and "Identical" Activity * Hemeneutics as Art * Literature and the "Musical" *Part VII: Music, Language and Literature* Language and Music * Hegel and Romanticism: Music, Logos, and Feeling * The "Presence" of Music * "Infinite Reflection" and Music *Part VIII: Nietzsche and the Fate of Romantic Thought* The Old and the New Nietzsches * Schopenhauer: Music as Metaphysics * Marx, Mythology, and Art * Art, Myth, and Music in "The Birth of Tragedy" * Myth, Music, and Language * The Illusion of Truth * Music and Metaphysics * Aesthetics, "Interpretation", and Subjectivity * The So-Called "Oldest System Programme of German Idealism".