Contemplating Art

by Jerrold Levinson

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780199206179
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	12/28/2006
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	432
Product dimensions:	9.10(w) x 6.10(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

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

IntroductionPart One. Art1. The Irreducible Historicality of the Concept of Art2. Artworks as Artifacts3. Emotion in Response to Art4. Elster on Artistic CreativityPart Two. Music5. Sound, Gesture, Space, and the Expression of Emotion in Music6. Musical Expressiveness as Hearability-as-Expression7. Non-existent Artforms and the Case of Visual Music8. Music as Narrative and Music as Drama9. Film Music and Narrative Agency10. Evaluating Music11. Musical Thinking12. Musical ChillsPart Three. Pictures13. Wollheim on Pictorial Representation14. What Is Erotic Art? 15. Erotic Art and Pornographic PicturesPart Four. Interpretation16. Two Notions of Interpretation17. Who's Afraid of a Paraphrase? 18. Hypothetical Intentionalism: Statement, Objections, and RepliesPart Five. Aesthetic Properties19. Aesthetic Properties, Evaluative Force, and Differences of Sensibility20. What Are Aesthetic Properties?Part Six. History21. The Aesthetics of Schopenhauer22. Hume's Standard of Taste: The Real ProblemPart Seven. Other Matters23. The Concept of Humour24. Intrinsic Value and the Notion of a Life