Volume 1:
1. Prologue;
Part I. Aesthetics in Britain, 1725–1800:
2. Hutcheson to Hume;
3. Hogarth, Burke, and Gerard;
4. From Kames to Alison and Stewart;
Part II. French Aesthetics in Mid-Century:
5. André to Rousseau;
Part III. German Aesthetics between Wolff and Kant:
6. The first generation of Wolffian aesthetics;
7. German aesthetics at mid-century;
8. Coming closer to Kant;
Part IV. Kant and After:
9. Kant;
10. After Kant.
Volume 2:
Part I. German Aesthetics in the First Half of the Nineteenth-Century:
1. Early Romanticism and idealism;
2. In the shadow of Schelling;
3. The high tide of idealism;
4. In the wake of Hegel;
Part II. (Mostly) British Aesthetics in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century:
5. Ruskin;
6. Aestheticism;
7. Bosanquet and Tolstoy;
Part III. German Aesthetics in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century:
8. In the shadow of Schopenhauer;
9. Neo-Kantian aesthetics;
10. Psychological aesthetics: play and empathy.
Volume 3:
Part I. German Aesthetics in the Twentieth Century:
1. German aesthetics between the wars: Lukács and Heidegger;
2. German aesthetics after World War II;
Part II. Aesthetics in Britain until World War II:
3. Bloomsbury, Croce, and Bullough;
4. First responses to Croce;
5. Collingwood;
Part III. American Aesthetics in the First Half of the Twentieth Century:
6. Santayana;
7. The American reception of expression theory
I: Parker to Greene;
8. Dewey;
9. The American reception of expression theory
II: Cassirer and Langer;
10. After Dewey and Cassirer;
Part IV. Wittgenstein and After: Anglo-American Aesthetics in the Second Part of the Twentieth Century:
11. Wittgenstein;
12. The first wave;
13. The second wave.
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