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Aesthetics

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Visual Art

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Literature

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Film

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Theater

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Ancient Greece

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Music

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Dance

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Photography

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Pertinent Works of
Idiosyncratic Choice


Works highlighted in blue denote Nietzsche Circle Advisor

AESTHETICS

Giorgio Agamben
       The Man Without Content

Aristotle
       Poetics

Erich Auerbach
       Mimesis

Babette E. Babich
       Words in Blood, Like Flowers: Philosophy and
           Poetry, Music and Eros in Hölderlin,
           Nietzsche, Heidegger

Gaston Bachelard
       The Poetics of Space
       The Poetics of Reverie
       The Psychoanalysis of Fire

Georges Bataille
       The Absence of Myth: Writings on Surrealism

Walter Benjamin
       Illuminations
       Reflections

Edmund Burke
       A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our
           Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful

Guy Debord
       The Society of the Spectacle

Michel Foucault
       Aesthetics, Method, Epistemology

Sigmund Freud
       Writings on Art & Literature

Ortega y Gasset
       The Dehumanization of Art

Jennifer Anna Gosetti-Ferencei
       The Ecstatic Quotidian: Phenomenological
           Sightings in Modern Art and Literature

Pierre Hadot
       The Veils of Isis: An Essay on the History of
           the Idea of Nature

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
       Aesthetics: Lectures on Fine Art vol. 1

Francis Hutcheson
       An Inquiry into the Original of our Ideas of
           Beauty and Virtue

Immanuel Kant
       The Critique of Judgement (Meredith translation)
       Observations on the feeling of the Beautiful
           and the Sublime

Sarah Kofman
       Camera Obscura: Of Ideology

Susanne K. Langer
       Philosophy in a New Key: A Study in the
           Symbolism of Reason, Rite, and Art
       Feeling and Form: A Theory of Art Developed
           from Philosophy in a New Key

Longinus
       On the Sublime

Jean-Francois Lyotard
       Lessons on the Analytic of the Sublime

Louis Marin
       On Representation

Jean-Luc Nancy
       Of the Sublime

Philip Pothen
       Nietzsche & The Fate of Art

Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling
       Philosophy of Art

August Wilhelm Schlegel
       Lectures on Art & Literature

Lord Shaftesbury
       Characteristics of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times

Gary Shapiro
       The Archaeologies of Vision: Foucault and
           Nietzsche on Seeing and Saying
       Earthwards: Robert Smithson and Art After Babel

Susan Sontag
       Against Interpretation

VISUAL ART

The Blaue Reiter Almanac

Apollinaire
       Apollinaire on Art: Essays and Reviews 1902-1918

Rudolf Arnheim
       Art and Visual Perception: A Psychology of the
           Creative Eye

Charles Baudelaire
       The Painter of Modern Life

John Berger
       Keeping a Rendezvous
       Selected Essays
       The Sense of Sight

Peter Burger
       Theory of the Avant-Garde

Mark Daniel Cohen
       The Judenporzellan of Izhar Patkin

Hubert Damisch
       The Origin of Perspective
       Theory of /Cloud: Toward a History of
           Painting (Cultural Memory in the Present)

Arthur Danto
       After the End of Art
       The Transfiguration of the Commonplace:
           A Philosophy of Art
       Beyond the Brillo Box: The Visual Arts
           in the Post-Historical Perspective

Gilles Deleuze
       Francis Bacon

Michel Foucault
       This is not a pipe

Piero della Francesca
       De Prospectiva Pingendi

Joseph Kosuth
       Art After Philosophy and After: Collected
           Writing, 1966-1990

Wassily Kandinsky
       Concerning the Spiritual in Art

Donald Kuspit
       The End of Art
       Redeeming Art: Critical Reveries
       Psychostrategies of Avant-Garde Art
       The Dialectic of Decadence: Between Advance
           and Decline in Art

Donald Kuspit, Mark Daniel Cohen, and others
       Chawky Frenn: Art for Life’s Sake

Hermann Nitsch
       The Fall of Jerusalem

Walter Pater
       The Renaissance

Ezra Pound
       Gaudier-Brzeska: A Memoir

Rainer Maria Rilke
       Auguste Rodin

John Ruskin
       Selected Writings

David Sylvester
       The Brutality of Fact: Interviews with
           Francis Bacon

Leonardo da Vinci
       Notebooks

Anthologies:

Theories of Modern Art: A Source Book by
           Artists and Critics,
Herschel B. Chipp, with
           contributions by Peter Selz and
           Joshua C. Taylor

Theories and Documents of Contemporary Art:
           A Sourcebook of Artists’ Writings,
ed. by
           Kristine Stiles and Peter Selz

Art in Theory, 1900-2000: An Anthology of
           Changing Ideas,
ed. by Charles Harrison
           and Paul Wood

Art in Theory, 1815-1900: An Anthology of
           Changing Ideas,
ed. by Charles Harrison
           and Paul Wood

Art in Theory, 1648-1815: An Anthology of
           Changing Ideas,
ed. by Charles Harrison,
           Paul Wood, and Jason Gaiger

LITERATURE

Matthew Arnold
       “Culture and Anarchy”

Mikhail Bakhtin
       The Dialogic Imagination
       Rabelais and his World

Maurice Blanchot
       The Space of Literature
       The Writing of the Disaster

Harold Bloom
       The Anxiety of Influence
       Map of Misreading
       Agon

Katja Brunkhorst
       ‘Verwandt-Verwandelt.’ Nietzsche’s Presence
           in Rilke

Gerald Bruns
       On the Anarchy of Poetry and Philosophy

Ernst Cassirer
       Language and Myth

S. T. Coleridge
       Biographia Literaria

Hart Crane
       “The Case Against Nietzsche”

Paul de Man
       Blindness and Insight
       Allegories of Reading

Gilles Deleuze
       Masochism: Coldness and Cruelty
       Essays Critical and Clinical

T. S. Eliot
       The Sacred Wood

William Empson
       Seven Types of Ambiguity

Northrop Frye
       The Anatomy of Criticism
       The Educated Imagination

Gerard Genette
       Mimologics

Jennifer Anna Gosetti-Ferencei
       Heidegger, Hölderlin, and the Subject of
           Poetic Language

Michael Hamburger
       The Truth of Poetry

Martin Heidegger
       Poetry, Language, Thought

Friedrich Hölderlin
       Essays and Letters on Theory

John Keats
       Letters

Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe/Jean-Luc Nancy
       The Literary Absolute

John Livingston Lowes
       The Road to Xanadu: A Study in the Ways of
           Imagination

Stéphane Mallarmé
       “Crisis of Verse”

Novalis
       Philosophical Writings

Charles Olson
       “Projective Verse”

Walter J. Ong
       Orality and Literacy

Ezra Pound
       Guide to Kulchur
       ABC of Reading
       Literary Essays of Ezra Pound
       The Chinese Written Character as a Medium
           for Poetry

Arthur Rimbaud
       “Voyant Letters”

Friedrich Schiller
       On Naïve and Sentimental Poetry

Friedrich Schlegel
       Dialogue on Poetry and Literary Aphorisms

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Percy Bysse Shelley
       “A Defense of Poetry”

Walter H. Sokel
       The Writer in Extremis
       The Myth of Power and the Self: Essays on
           Franz Kafka

Wallace Stevens
       The Necessary Angel: Essays on Reality
           and the Imagination

Mark Strand
       Selected Poems
       Blizzard of One

Colin Wilson
       Poetry & Mysticism

William K. Wimsatt
       “The Intentional Fallacy”

Wordsworth and Coleridge
       Advertisement to Lyrical Ballads
       Wordsworth’s prefaces

FILM

Andre Bazin
       What is Cinema? vol. 1&2

Ingmar Bergman
       Bergman on Bergman
       The Magic Lantern: An Autobiography
       Images: My Life in Film

Les Blank
       Burden of Dreams

Robert Bresson
       Notes on Cinematography

Lotte H. Eisner
       The Haunted Screen

Federico Fellini
       Fellini on Fellini
       I, Fellini

Werner Herzog
       Herzog on Herzog
       Of Walking on Ice

Siegfried Kracuer
       From Caligari to Hitler Theory of Film: The
           Redemption of Physical Reality

Akira Kurosawa
       Something Like An Autobiography

Walter Murch
       The Conversations: On the Art of Editing Film

Pier Paolo Pasolini
       Heretical Empiricism
       Pasolini on Pasolini

Andrei Tarkovski
       Sculpting in Time

Paolo Cherchi Usai
       The Death of Cinema

THEATER

Antonin Artaud
       The Theater and Its Double

Alain Badiou
       On Beckett

Walter Benjamin
       The Origin of German Tragic Drama

Eric Bentley
       The Theory of the Modern Stage

Henri Bergson
       Laughter

Herbert Blau
       The Impossible Theater

Augusto Boal
       Theater of the Oppressed

Faubion Bowers
       Theatre in the East: A Survey of Asian Dance
           and Drama

Bertolt Brecht
       Brecht on Theatre: The Development of an Aesthetic

Peter Brook
       The Empty Space

Robert Brustein
       The Theater of Revolt

Martin Esslin
       The Theater of the Absurd

Francis Fergusson
       The Idea of a Theater

Jerzy Grotowski
       Towards a Poor Theater

William Hazlitt
       Hazlitt on Theatre

Walter Kaufmann
       Tragedy & Philosophy

H. D. F. Kitto
       Greek Tragedy: A Literary Study

G. E. Lessing
       Hamburg Dramaturgy

Vsevolod Meyerhold
       Meyerhold on Theatre

Ezra Pound
       The Noh Theatre of Japan (with Ernest Fenollosa)

Leonard Pronko
        Theater East and West

James Roose-Evans
       Experimental Theater from Stanislavsky to
           Peter Brook

Richard Schechner
       The Future of Ritual

Richard Schechner/Willa Appel
       By Means of Performance: Intercultural Studies
           of Theatre and Ritual

Charles Segal
       Oedipus Tyrannus: Tragic Heroism and the
           Limits of Knowledge

Walter H. Sokel
       Anthology of Expressionist Drama: A Prelude to
           the Absurd

Jean-Pierre Vernant/Pierre Vidal-Naquet
       Myth and Tragedy in Ancient Greece

ANCIENT GREECE

Marcel Detienne
       The Masters of Truth in Archaic Greece
       The Writing of Orpheus: Greek Myth in
           Cultural Context

E. R. Dodds
       The Greeks and the Irrational

Pedro Lain Entralgo
       The Therapy of the Word in Classical Antiquity

J. E. Harrison
       Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion
       Themis: A Study of the Social Origins of
           Greek Religion

Karl Kerenyi
       Dionysus

H. D. F. Kitto
       The Greeks

Walter Pater
       Greek Studies (containing “A Study of Dionysus”)

Schlegel
       On the Study of Greek Poetry

Jean-Pierre Vernant
       Myth and Society in Ancient Greece
       Origins of Greek Thought

Paul Veyne
       Did the Greeks Believe in their Myths?

MUSIC

Theodor W. Adorno
       Philosophy of Modern Music
       Essays on Music
       Philosophy of New Music

John Cage
       Silence
       For the Birds
(with Daniel Charles)

Harry Partch
       Bitter Music: Collected Journals, Essays,
           Introductions, and Librettos

Arnold Schoenberg
       Style and Idea: Selected Writings by
           Arnold Schoenberg

Igor Stravinsky
       Poetics of Music in the Form of Six Lessons
           (The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures)

Richard Wagner
       Wagner on Music and Drama: A Compendium of
           Richard Wagner’s Prose Works
       “The Art-Work of the Future” and Other Works
       Art And Revolution
       Pilgrimage to Beethoven and Other Essays

DANCE

Merce Cunningham
       The Dancer and the Dance

Martha Graham
       Blood Memory: An autobiography

Doris Humphrey
       The Art of Making Dance

Kimerer L. LaMothe
       Nietzsche’s Dancers: Isadora Duncan, Martha
           Graham, and the Revaluation of Christian Values

PHOTOGRAPHY

Roland Barthes
       Camera Lucida

Susan Sontag
       On Photography

PERTINENT WORKS OF IDIOSYNCRATIC CHOICE

Hypnerotomachia Poliphili: The Strife of Love
           in a Dream

Georges Bataille
       Erotism

Samuel Beckett
       everything

William Blake
       The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

Maurice Blanchot
       Infinite Conversations

Sebastian Brant, Albrecht Dürer
       Ship of Fools

Thomas Browne
       Selected Writings

Ernst Cassirer
       The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms, vol. 1-4

E. M. Cioran
       Anathemas and Admirations
       On the Heights of Despair
       Tears & Saints

Edward Dahlberg
       The Sorrows of Priapus
       The Carnal Myth
       Confessions

Agnes Denes
       The Book of Dust (not currently in publication)

Marguerite Duras
       Writing

Ralph Waldo Emerson
       Essays, First and Second Series
       “Solitude and Society”

Sigmund Freud
       Beyond the Pleasure Principle
       Civilization and Its Discontents
       The Future of an Illusion

Jean Genet
       The Thief’s Journal

Goethe
       Conversations with Eckermann

William Hazlitt
       Selected Writings

Eric Hoffer
       The True Believer

Samuel Johnson
       The Major Works

C. G. Jung
       Memories, Dreams, Reflections
       Psychological Types

Lautreamont
       Maldoror

Stéphane Mallarmé
       everything

Abraham Maslow
       Towards a Psychology of Being

Marcel Mauss
       The Gift

Montaigne
       The Complete Essays

Vladimir Nabokov
       Speak, Memory

Thomas de Quincey
       Confessions of an Opium Eater
       On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts
       The Literature of Knowledge and the Literature
           of Power

Rabelais
       Gargantua and Pantagruel

Paul Valéry
       Monsieur Teste


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