Theory of the Avant-garde

Foreword: Theory of Modernism versus Theory of the Avant-Garde, by Jochen Schulte-Sasse.
Preliminary Remarks.
Introduction: Theory of the Avant-Garde and Theory of Literature.
Preliminary Reflections on a Critical Literary Science.
1. Hermeneutics
2. Ideology Critique
3. Analysis of Functions
Theory of the Avant-Garde and Critical Literary Science
1. The Historicity of Aesthetic Categories
2. The Avant-Garde as the Self-Criticism of Art in Bourgeois Society
3. Regarding the Discussion of Benjamin´s Theory of Art
On the Problem of in Bourgeois Society
1. Research Problems
2. The Autonomy of Art in the Aesthetics of Kant and Schiller
3. The Negation of the Autonomy of Art by the Avant-Garde
The Avant-Gardiste Work of Art
1. On the Problem of the Category "Work"
2. The New
3. Chance
4. Benjamin´s Concept of Allegory
5. Montage
Avant-Garde and Engagement
1. The Debate between Adorno and Lukács
2. Concluding Remark on Hegel
Postscript
Notes
Bibliography
Index