| Reckoning with the Imagination: Wittgenstein and the Aesthetics of Literary Experience Charles Altieri argues for a reconsideration of the Kantian tradition of Idealist ethics, which he believes can restore much of the power of the arguments for the role of aesthetics in art. Charles Altieri is Stageberg Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of many books, including Wallace Stevens and the Demands of Modernity: Toward a Phenomenology of Value and The Particulars of Rapture: An Aesthetics of the Affects , both from Cornell, and Postmodernisms Now: Essays on Contemporaneity in the Arts . |