Plato and Platonism on poetry, art, and truthAristotle on the theory of forms, imitative poetry, and art in general -- Art and the transcendent, or Christian Platonic and anti-Platonic art -- Kant and German idealist aesthetics -- Hegel on art and spiritual truth -- Marx, Marxism, and aesthetic realism -- On the theory and practice of representation in the twentieth century.
Includes bibliographical references (pages [275]-315) and index