The contributions to this volume are devoted to Christian Kracht's Aesthetics under two main aspects: On the one hand, with regard to sometimes irritatingly twisted actualizations of that self-reference and reservation which, since Kant, is to be evaluated as a central mode of the aesthetic; on the other hand, with regard to interferences with areas that are usually perceived as extra-aesthetic, but which can be evaluated as ferments of contemporary aesthetics: Stagings in the field of the literary establishment, the aesthetic under media and market conditions, and in the focus of canonization and criticism. Kracht's Frankfurt Poetics Lectures, which were intensively commented on by the media, form the background to this discussion.

This book is a translation of an original German edition. The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence (machine translation by the service DeepL.com). The editors (with the support of by Lucy Nixon and Andrea Hartmann)have subsequently revised the text further in an endeavour to refine the work stylistically.

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Susanne Komfort-Hein Professor of Modern German Literature at the Goethe University Frankfurt.Heinz Drügh is Professor of Literary History of the 18th and 19th Century / Aesthetics at the Goethe University Frankfurt.