1. Introduction2. Aesthetic Semblance and Play as Responses to the Disfigurement of Human Social Existence in Schiller's Aesthetic Education3. Aesthetic Experience at the Limits of Thought in Hölderlin's New Letters on Aesthetic Education4. The Endless Pursuit of Universal Sense in Friedrich Schlegel's Political and Aesthetic Thought 5. Walter Benjamin's Philosophy of Critical Experience-From the Romantic Artwork to the Disillusioning of Mimesis6. Aesthetic Truth as the Mimesis of False Consciousness in Adorno's Aesthetic Theory7. Conclusion: The Benjamin-Adorno Debate on the Nature of Aesthetic Experience