Includes bibliographical references (p. [190]-207) and index.
Contents:
1. Introduction: individualism and the 'aesthetic philosopher' -- 2. Empiricism and imperilled self -- 3. Subjectivity and imagination: from Hume to Kant via Berkeley -- 4. Metaphysics: Pater's failed attempt at atheism -- 5. Sense and sensuality: caught between Venus and Dionysus -- 6. Pater's Copernican revolution: the desiring, dying body -- 7. Evolution and the 'species': the individual in deep time -- 8. The moment and the aesthetic imagination -- 9. Ethics, society and the aesthetic individual -- 10. Conclusion: 'the elusive inscrutable mistakable self'
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