Contemplating Art
Essays in Aesthetics
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Product details:
- Publisher Oxford University Press
- Date of Publication 5 October 2006
- ISBN 9780199206186
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages432 pages
- Size 234x156x30 mm
- Weight 785 g
- Language English 0
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Long description:
...over the last twenty years or so, Jerrold Levinson's work has been undoubtedly amongst the most wide-ranging and highly regarded in the field of philosophical aesthetics...interesting and original... It is this mixture of profoundly investigative and innovative essays that leaves the most lasting impression on the reader, leading us to wonder, whether, despite his previous achievements, Levinson's most interesting and important work is yet to come...
MoreTable of Contents:
Introduction
Part One. Art
The Irreducible Historicality of the Concept of Art
Artworks as Artifacts
Emotion in Response to Art
Elster on Artistic Creativity
Part Two. 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
Part Three. Pictures
Wollheim on Pictorial Representation
What Is Erotic Art?
Erotic Art and Pornographic Pictures
Part Four. Interpretation
Two Notions of Interpretation
Who's Afraid of a Paraphrase?
Hypothetical Intentionalism: Statement, Objections, and Replies
Part Five. Aesthetic Properties
Aesthetic Properties, Evaluative Force, and Differences of Sensibility
What Are Aesthetic Properties?
Part Six. History
The Aesthetics of Schopenhauer
Hume's Standard of Taste: The Real Problem
Part Seven. Other Matters
The Concept of Humour
Intrinsic Value and the Notion of a Life
