The Aesthetics of Ruins

List of Illustrations Foreword by Claire Richter Sherman Preface Acknowledgments ONE The Ruin as Matter TWO The Ruin as Form THREE The Ruin as Function FOUR The Ruin as Incongruity FIVE The Ruin as Site SIX The Ruin as Symbol SEVEN The Ruin as Aesthetic Experience EIGHT Visit to a Ruin: St. Andrews NINE Building with Ruin TEN Nature as Ruin ELEVEN Sculpture and Other Visual Arts as Ruin TWELVE Cinema and Television as Ruin THIRTEEN Literature as Ruin FOURTEEN Philosophy as Ruin FIFTEEN The Terminology of Ruin SIXTEEN Theories of Ruin SEVENTEEN The Ruining Eye - and Other Senses EIGHTEEN Fragments of a Chapter on Ruin NINETEEN Meditations on Humanity, Self, and the World as Ruins Works Cited Chronology of Ruin Appendix Bibliographical Essay on the Literature and Imagery of Ruin About the Author Index