Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-209) and index.
Contents
Burke and the ambitions of taste -- Introducing taste -- Delight, or the labor theory of pleasure -- Sensation and sensibility -- Shaftesbury and the "charm of confederation" -- Sympathy -- Ambition -- Spectatorship -- Hogarth and the lineage of taste -- The epistemology of lines -- The eye for pleasure -- Dance and the movement from vision to imagination -- Eye and mind -- Kant and the pleasures of taste -- Activating sensibility -- Determining reflective judgment -- Phantom sensations and mistake subjects -- Representative pleasures -- Opaque pleasures.