Vol. 49, No. 1, Spring 2026 [Regular Issue]
ARTICLES
- Andrew Ward – Aesthetic Reasons and Aesthetic Causes: Wittgenstein and Hume on Aesthetic Reactions
- Francesca Medaglia – The Power of Ethics in Complex Television Narration through Lamarque’s Studies
- Francesco Giuseppe Trotta – “That nothing which alone makes it possible for a something to be usable”: Benjamin, Kafka, and Daoism
- George Cai – As Blissful in Heaven as Decadent in Hell: Salvations in Faust and Dorian Gray
- Marcello Di Massa – A Resolute Thomas Bernhard
- Max Parks – Distributed Imagination: AI-Generated Art and the Nature of Creative Capacity
BOOK REVIEWS
- Soni Wadhwa – Thinking Through Data. How Outliers, Aggregates, and Patterns Shape Perception. By Maja Bak Herrie. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2025, 154 pp.
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SPECIAL ISSUES
- Art, Imagination, and Affect
- A Festschrift for Peter Lamarque
- Aesthetics and Leisure: Historical, Intercultural, and Theoretical Perspectives
- (De)Bordering Aesthetics: 19th-Century German Philosophy and the Migratory Turn
- Art and Emotion: Philosophical Engagements with Painting
- Understanding and Enjoyment in Aesthetic Experience
- Perspectives in Contemporary Critical Theory
- Reception of Sanskrit Studies in the 19th-century European Ideology
- Painting and Poetry: New Accents
The Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics publishes special volumes on themes of current critical interest and contemporary relevance. Some of the special issues published in the past include “Deconstruction in Contemporary Criticism” (1985), “Representation in Contemporary Criticism” (1986), “Frankfurt School of Aesthetics” (1988), “Prague School of Structuralism” (1991), “Indian Aesthetics and Contemporary Theory” (1992), “Italian Aesthetics since Croce” (1993), “Aesthetics Today” (1994), “Environmental Aesthetics” (1995), etc. The Journal welcomes proposals for possible special issues at any time.