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9780199206186

Contemplating Art

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    9780199206186

  • ISBN10:

    019920618X

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2006-11-30
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Summary

Contemplating Art is a compendium of writings from the last ten years by one of the leading figures in aesthetics, Jerrold Levinson. The twenty-four essays range over issues in general aesthetics and those relating to specific arts--in particular music, film, and literature. It will appeal not only to philosophers but also to musicologists, literary theorists, art critics, and reflective lovers of the arts.

Author Biography


Jerrold Levinson is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of Maryland, College Park. His publications include Music, Art, and Metaphysics (1990), The Pleasures of Aesthetics (1998), and Music in the Moment (1998). He is the editor of The Oxford Handbook of Aesthetics (2003) and co-editor of Aesthetic Concepts (2001). He is Past President of the American Society for Aesthetics and serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Aesthetics. His work is widely anthologized and translated into various languages.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Art
The Irreducible Historicality of the Concept of Art
Artworks as Artifacts
Emotion in Response to Art
Elster on Artistic Creativity
Music
Sound, Gesture, Space, and the Expression of Emotion in Music
Musical Expressiveness as Hearability-as-Expression
Non-existent Artforms and the Case of Visual Music
Music as Narrative and Music as Drama
Film Music and Narrative Agency
Evaluating Music
Musical Thinking
Musical Chills
Pictures
Wollheim on Pictorial Representation
What Is Erotic Art?
Erotic Art and Pornographic Pictures
Interpretation
Two Notions of Interpretation
Who's Afraid of a Paraphrase?
Hypothetical Intentionalism: Statement, Objections, and Replies
Aesthetic Properties
Aesthetic Properties, Evaluative Force, and Differences of Sensibility
What Are Aesthetic Properties?
History
The Aesthetics of Schopenhauer
Hume'sStandard of Taste: The Real Problem
Other Matters
The Concept of Humour
Intrinsic Value and the Notion of a Life
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