Blackwell Guide to Aesthetics

365 Pages·2004·0.98 MB·English

by  Peter Kivy

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Contents
Notes on Contributors ix
Introduction: Aesthetics Today 1
Part I The Core Issues 13
1 The Origins of Modern Aesthetics: 1711–35 15
Paul Guyer
2 Defining Art: Intension and Extension 45
George Dickie
3 Art and the Aesthetic 63
Marcia Muelder Eaton
4 The Ontology of Art 78
Amie L. Thomasson
5 Evaluating Art 93
Alan Goldman
6 Interpretation in Aesthetics 109
Laurent Stern
7 Art and the Moral Realm 126
Noël Carroll
8 Beauty and the Critic’s Judgment: Remapping Aesthetics 152
Mary Mothersill
9 The Philosophy of Taste: Thoughts on the Idea 167
Ted Cohen
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10 The Emotions in Art 174
Jenefer Robinson
Part II The Arts and Other Matters 193
11 The Philosophy of Literature: Pleasure Restored 195
Peter Lamarque and Stein Haugom Olsen
12 The Philosophy of the Visual Arts: Perceiving Paintings 215
Joseph Margolis
13 The Philosophy of the Movies: Cinematic Narration 230
Berys Gaut
14 The Philosophy of Music: Formalism and Beyond 254
Philip Alperson
15 The Philosophy of Dance: Bodies in Motion, Bodies at Rest 276
Francis Sparshott
16 Tragedy 291
Susan Feagin
17 The Aesthetics of Nature and the Environment 306
Donald W. Crawford
18 Art and the Aesthetic: The Religious Dimension 325
Nicholas Wolterstorff
Index 340
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Notes on Contributors
Philip Alperson is director of the Temple Society of Fellows in the Humanities
and professor of philosophy at Temple University. He is the editor of several books,
including The Philosophy of the Visual Arts (1992), What is Music?: An Introduc-
tion to the Philosophy of Music (1994), Musical Worlds: New Directions in the Phi-
losophy of Music (1998), and Diversity and Community: An Interdisciplinary
Reader (2002). He was the editor of the Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism
from 1993 to 2003.
Noël Carroll is Monroe C. Beardsley professor of philosophy at the University
of Wisconsin–Madison, and a past president of the American Society for
Aesthetics. He is widely published in the fields of aesthetics and philosophy of art,
as well as in film theory. His latest book is Beyond Aesthetics.
Ted Cohen is professor of philosophy at the University of Chicago. He is the
author of various essays in aesthetics, an essay about his grandfather, one essay on
baseball that won a Pushcart Prize, and the book Jokes. He is a past president of
the American Society for Aesthetics.
Donald W. Crawford is professor of philosophy at the University of California,
Santa Barbara. He has published articles on the aesthetics of nature and Kant’s
aesthetics and is the author of Kant’s Aesthetic Theory (1974). He is a past editor
of the Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism.
George Dickieis professor emeritus of philosophy from the University of Illinois,
Chicago. He is the author of Art and Value (2001), Introduction to Aesthetics
(1997), The Century of Taste (1996), Evaluating Art (1988), The Art Circle
(1984), Art and the Aesthetic (1974), and other works in aesthetics.
Marcia Muelder Eatonis professor of philosophy at the University of Minnesota.
She is the author of several books on aesthetics and the philosophy of art. She has
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taught and lectured internationally and is a former president of the American
Society for Aesthetics.
Susan Feaginis editor of the Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticismand research
professor of philosophy at Temple University. She is the author of Reading With
Feeling: The Aesthetics of Appreciation (1996), co-editor (with Patrick Maynard)
of Aesthetics(1997), and author of numerous articles on interpretation and appre-
ciation, especially in relation to the visual arts and literature.
Berys Gaut is a senior lecturer in the Department of Moral Philosophy at the
University of St Andrews, Scotland. He has written extensively on aesthetics, phi-
losophy of film, and moral philosophy. He is a co-editor of The Routledge Com-
panion to Aesthetics (2001) and of The Creation of Art (2003). He is currently
completing a book entitled Art, Emotion, and Ethics.
Alan Goldmanis the William R. Kenan, Jr, professor of humanities at the College
of William and Mary. He is the author of six books on aesthetics, ethics, and epis-
temology, including Aesthetic Value (1995) and Practical Rules: When We Need
Them and When We Don’t (2002).
Paul Guyer is the Florence R. C. Murray professor in the humanities in the
Department of Philosophy of the University of Pennsylvania. He has written
widely on Kant, the history of philosophy, and the history of aesthetics. His works
on Kant’s aesthetics include Kant and the Claims of Taste (1979, 1997), Kant
and the Experience of Freedom (1993), a new translation of the Critique of the
Power of Judgment (2000, with Eric Matthews), and two anthologies, Essays in
Kant’s Aesthetics (1982) and Kant’s Critique of the Power of Judgment: Critical
Essays (2003). He is currently preparing to write a history of modern aesthetics.
Peter Kivy is Board of Governors professor of philosophy at Rutgers University
and a past president of the American Society for Aesthetics. He has published
numerous articles and books in aesthetics and the philosophy of art. His most
recent books are The Possessor and the Possessed: Handel, Mozart, Beethoven, and
the Idea of Musical Genius (2001), New Essays on Musical Understanding (2001),
and Introduction to a Philosophy of Music (2002).
Peter Lamarque is professor of philosophy and head of department at the Uni-
versity of York. He has published widely on fictionality, philosophy of literature,
and aesthetics, including Truth, Fiction, and Literature(1994, with Stein Haugom
Olsen) and Fictional Points of View (1996). He is editor of the British Journal of
Aesthetics and was also philosophy subject editor for the 10-volume Encyclopedia
of Language and Linguistics.
Joseph Margolis is Laura Carnell professor of philosophy at Temple University,
and a past president of the American Society for Aesthetics. He has written books
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