Danto and His Critics

by Rollins, Mark

• ISBN13: 9780470673447
• ISBN10: 0470673443
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-05-15
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

Updated and revised, the Second Edition of Danto and His Critics presents a series of essays by leading Danto scholars who offer their critical assessment of the influential works and ideas of Arthur C. Danto, the Johnsonian Professor Emeritus in the Department of Philosophy at Columbia University and long-time art critic for The Nation. Reflects Danto's revisions in his theory of art, reworking his views in ways that have not been systematically addressed elsewhere Features essays that critically assess the changes in Danto's thoughts and locate Danto's revised theory in the larger context of his work and of aesthetics generally Speaks in original ways to the relation of Danto's philosophy of art to his theory of mind Connects and integrates Danto's ideas on the nature of knowledge, action, aesthetics, history, and mind, as well as his provocative thoughts on the philosophy of art for the reader

Author Biography

Mark Rollins is Professor in the Department of Philosophy, the Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology Program, and the Sam Fox School of Art and Visual Design at Washington University in St. Louis. He is the author of several books on the role of images in perception and cognition and as symbols in literature and art. 

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xi
Selected Bibliography of the Works of Arthur Danto	p. xiii
Introduction	p. 1
System and Method	p. 13
Danto as Systematic Philosopher, or Comme on lit Danto en francais	p. 15
Danto's Gallery of Indiscernibles	p. 30
Intention and Interpretation	p. 41
The Invisible Content of Visual Art	p. 43
Deja vu All Over Again: How Danto's Aesthetics Recapitulates the Philosophy of Mind	p. 55
Surface and Deep Interpretation	p. 69
"Other Pictures We Look at, - His Prints We Read": Danto Reading Lamb Reading Hogarth on the Art of the Commonplace	p. 84
Philosophy of Art	p. 109
A Tale of Two Artworlds	p. 111
Essence, Expression, and History: Arthur Danto's Philosophy of Art	p. 118
Danto's New Definition of Art and the Problem of Art Theories	p. 146
Danto and Kant: Together at Last?	p. 153
Atomism, Art, and Arthur: Danto's Hegelian Turn	p. 172
Historical Knowledge	p. 197
Art and Its Doubles: Danto, Foucault, and Their Simulacra Postscript	p. 199
The Beginning of the End: Danto on Postmodernism	p. 215
Danto's Aesthetic: Is It Truly General As He Claims?	p. 232
What Philosophy Is	p. 249
Art as Religion: Transfigurations of Danto's Dao	p. 251
Looking Beyond the Visible: The Case of Arthur Dantwo	p. 267
Responses	p. 283
Replies to Essays	p. 285
Afterword: Not by a Soap Box but First by a Kiss	p. 313
Index	p. 317
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