A compendium of essays on art by twenty philosophers, edited by Christopher Kul-Want. Texts by Immanuel Kant, Georg W. F. Hegel, Friedrich Nietszche, Sigmund Freud, Georges Bataille, Walter Benjamin, Martin Heidegger, Jacques Lacan, Michel Foucault, Theodor Adorno, Sarah Kofman, Roland Barthes, Julia Kristeva, Jacques Derrida, Gilles Derrida, Gilles Deleuze, Jean-Francois Lyotard , Giorgio Agamben, Jean-Luc Nancy, Alain Badiou and Jacques Rancière. Includes index.