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The Blackwell Guide to Aesthetics - - Blackwell Philosophy Guides Series Editor: Steven M. Cahn, City University of New York Graduate School Written by an international assembly of distinguished philosophers, the Blackwell Philosophy GGides create a groundbreaking student resource a ~ complete critical survey of the central themes and issues of philosophy today. Focusing and advancing key arguments throughout, each essay incorporates essential background material serving to clarify the history and logic of the relevant topic. Accordingly, these volumes will be a valuable resource for a broad range of students and readers, including professional philosophers. 1 The Blackwell Guide to EPISTEMOLOGY Edited by John Gveco and Evnest Sosa 2 The Blackwell Guide to ETHICAL THEORY Edited by Hn.h LaFollette 3 The Blackwell Guide to the MODERN PHILOSOPHERS Edited by Steven M. 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No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, except as permitted by the UK Copyright, Designs, and Patents Act 1988, without the prior permission of the publisher. First published 2004 by Blackwell Publishing Ltd Libnwy of Conpess Cata Log-in.-in- Pub lication Data The Blackwell guide to aesthetics / edited by Peter Kivy. p. cm. - (Blackwell philosophy guides) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-631-22130-1 (alk. paper) - ISBN 0-631-22131-X (pbk.: alk. paper) 1. Aesthetics. I. Kivy, Peter. 11. Series. BH39.B556 2004 11 1’.85-dc21 2003010096 A catalogue record for this title is available from the British Library. Set in 10 on 13 pt Galliard by SNP Best-set Typesetter Ltd., Hong Kong Printed and bound in the United Kingdom by TJ International Ltd, Padstow, Cornwall For further information on Blackwell Publishing, visit our website: http://www. blackwellpublishing.com In this new soil a new powth of aesthetic theoyy has spyun8 up; yich in guantity and on the whole h&h in guaLity. It is too soon to wyite the histoyy of this movement, but not too Late to contyibute to it. G. Collingwood R. Contents Notes on Contributors ix Introduction: Aesthetics Today 1 Part I The Core Issues 13 1 The Origins of Modern Aesthetics: 17 1 1-35 15 Pad GGyer 2 Defining Art: Intension and Extension 45 Geoge Diclzie 3 Art and the Aesthetic 63 Mumh MGelder Euton 4 The Ontology of Art 78 Amie L. Thomusson 5 Evaluating Art 93 Alan Goldmun 6 Interpretation in Aesthetics 109 Luwent Stem 7 Art and the Moral Realm 126 Noel CU~9"Oll 8 Beauty and the Critic's Judgment: Remapping Aesthetics 152 Mary Mothedl 9 The Philosophy of Taste: Thoughts on the Idea 167 Ted Cohen vii Contents 10 The Emotions in Art 174 Jenej2r Robinsovc Part I1 The Arts and Other Matters 193 11 The Philosophy of Literature: Pleasure Restored 195 Peter LamarqGe and Stein Ha~gomO lsen 12 The Philosophy of the Visual Arts: Perceiving Paintings 215 Joseph Margolis 13 The Philosophy of the Movies: Cinematic Narration 230 Berys GaGt 14 The Philosophy of Music: Formalism and Beyond 254 Philip Alperso n 15 The Philosophy of Dance: Bodies in Motion, Bodies at Rest 276 Fvancis Spadott 16 Tragedy 29 1 S~sanF eagin 17 The Aesthetics of Nature and the Environment 306 Donald VI! Crawford 18 Art and the Aesthetic: The Religious Dimension 32 5 Nicholas Wolterstorff Index 340 viii 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 Viszd Arts (1992), VVbat is Mmic?: An Introdm- tion to the Philosophy of Mmic (1994), Miwsical Worlds: New Directions in the Phi- losophy of Mimic (1998), and Diversity and Commmity: An Interdisciplinary Reader (2002). He was the editor of the Jownal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism from 1993 to 2003. Noel 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 ICunt’s Aesthetic Theory (1974). He is a past editor of the Jownal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism. George Dickie is professor emeritus of philosophy from the University of Illinois, Chicago. He is the author of Art and Vahe (ZOOl), Introdz&on to Aesthetics (1997), The Centwy of Taste (1996), Eval~atinA. rt (1988), The Art Circle (1984), Art and the Aesthetic (1974), and other works in aesthetics. Marcia Muelder Eaton is professor of philosophy at the University of Minnesota. She is the author of several books on aesthetics and the philosophy of art. She has ix Notes on Contributors taught and lectured internationally and is a former president of the American Society for Aesthetics. Susan Peagin is editor of the Jownal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism and 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 Rodedge Com- panion to Aesthetics (2001) and of The Creation of Art (2003). He is currently completing a book entitled Art, Emotion, and Ethics. Alan Goldman is 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 Vahe (19 95) and Practical Rdes: VVben We Need Them and VVben 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 ICant and the Claims of Taste (1979, 1997), ICant and the Experience of Freedom (1993), a new translation of the CritiqGe of the Power of Jiwdgment (2000, with Eric Matthews), and two anthologies, Essays in ICant’s Aesthetics (1982) and ICant’s CritiqGe of the Power of Jiwdgment: 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 Miwsical Genim (200 1) , New Essays on Miwsical Understanding (2001 ) , and Introdmtion to a Philosophy of Mimic (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 TrGth, Fiction, and Literatwe (1994, with Stein Haugom Olsen) and Fictional Points of View (1996). He is editor of the British Jownal of Aesthetics and was also philosophy subject editor for the 10-volume Encyclopedia of LangGage and Lingt&tics. 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 X Notes on Contributors and articles on virtually every field of philosophy, including substantial contribu- tions to the philosophy of art. Mary Mothersill is professor emeritus at Barnard College and senior scholar at Columbia University. She is the author of BeaGty Restored (1984) and has written on various topics in philosophical aesthetics and moral psychology. Stein Haugom Olsen is chair professor of humanities and head of the Depart- ment of Philosophy at Lingnan University, Hong Kong. He is the author of The Strmtwe of Literary Understanding (1978), The End of Literary Theory (1987), and (with Peter Lamarque) Tmth, Fiction, and Literatwe: A Philosophical Per- spective (1994), as well as of a number of articles on literary theory, literary criti- cism, and aesthetics. He is an elected fellow of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. Jenefer Robinson is professor of philosophy at the University of Cincinnati. She is the author of many essays in aesthetics and emotion theory and the editor of Mmic and Meaning (1997). Her book Passionate EncoGnters: How EmotionsF ~nc- tion in Literatwe, Mmic, and the Other Arts will be published shortly. Francis Sparshott taught philosophy at the University of Toronto from 1950 to 199 1. His general works on aesthetics include The Strmtwe of Aesthetics (1963) and The Theory of the Arts (1982), and he has written two fat books on the phi- losophy of dance, Off the Gromad (1988) on dance generally and A Measwed Pace (1995) on dance as an art, though he would rather be known as author of eleven slim volumes of poetry. Laurent Stern is professor emeritus of philosophy at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey. He has published articles on interpreting and translating, and he is working on a book on these topics. h i e L . Thomasson is associate professor of philosophy at the University of Miami. She is the author of Fiction and Metaphysics (1999) and of many articles on metaphysics, philosophy of mind, phenomenology, and philosophy of art. She is currently working on a book entitled Ordinary Objects and co-editing (with David W. Smith) a volume of essays on phenomenology and philosophy of mind. Nicholas Wolterstorff is Noah Porter professor emeritus of philosophical theol- ogy at Yale University. He has written widely, not only on aesthetics but on epis- temology, metaphysics, history of philosophy, and philosophy of religion. In addition to many essays on aesthetics, his two books in the field are Worh and Worlds of Art (1980) and Art in Action (1980). He is a past president of the American Philosophical Association, and has delivered the Gifford Lectures at St Andrews University and the Wilde Lectures at Oxford University. xi

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The Blackwell Guide to Aesthetics is the most authoritative survey of the central issues in contemporary aesthetics available. The volume features eighteen newly commissioned papers on the evaluation of art, the interpretation of art, and many other forms of art such as literature, movies, and music
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