The Aesthetics of Enchantment in the Fine Arts

Acknowledgments The Theme: Toward the Aesthetics of Enchantment Inaugural Study. Part 1. Aesthetic Enchantment; A-T. Tymieniecka. The Phenomenology of the Experience of Enchantment; G. Backhaus. `Watery Worlds Awash': The Sound of Water in Wallace Stevens; N. Goldfarb. Light, Color, Interiority and the Aesthetics of Enchantment; S. Leuthold. Leonardo's Enchantress; P. Trutty-Coohill. Lartique and the Politics of Enchantment; B. Grosskurth. Part II. The Ambiguous Meaning of Musical Enchantment in Kant's Third Critique; S.C. Davidson. Systematic Seductions: Identities of Place in the Sculptures of Bernard Pagès; S. Hunter. Art and the Reenchantment of Sensuous Human-Activity; D. Brubaker. Perceiving the Sublime: A Look at Emerson's Aesthetics; C.R. Maibor. Part III. The Creative Voice; M. Steer. Semiotics and Musical Choice: Beyond Analysis Revisited; D. Lipten. The Aesthetics of Enchantment; L. Kimmel. Part IV. Re-covering Mystery: Restoring Ancient Avenues of Discovery and Concealment; B. Bernstein, D. Chismar. Solitary at the Counter; D.G. Palmgren. Through Death Comes Life: The Dying and Resurrecting Gods of Mesoamerica and Egypt; D. Wirth. The Allure of the Naza; A. Lindsay. Corporeal Disenchantment or Aesthetic Allure? Henri Matisse's Early Critical Reception in New York; M. Brennan. Part V. Zizek's Sublimicist Aesthetic of Enchanted Fantasy; C.G. McMahon. Metaphor and the Hermeneutic Potential of Poetic Discourse; S. Gillies. Hermann Hesse: The Search for Oneself; A. Cecilia. Enchantment in Baroque Festive Court Performances in France: Les plaisirs de l'île enchantée; C. Ruoff. Appendix: Index ofNames.