For over fifty years, philosophers working within the broader remit of analytic philosophy have developed and refined a substantial body of work in aesthetics and the philosophy of art, curating a core foundation of scholarship which offers rigor and clarity on matters of profound and perennial interest relating to art and all forms of aesthetic appreciation. Now in its second edition and thoroughly revised, Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art--The Analytic Tradition: An Anthology captures this legacy in a comprehensive introduction to the core philosophical questions and conversations in…mehr
For over fifty years, philosophers working within the broader remit of analytic philosophy have developed and refined a substantial body of work in aesthetics and the philosophy of art, curating a core foundation of scholarship which offers rigor and clarity on matters of profound and perennial interest relating to art and all forms of aesthetic appreciation. Now in its second edition and thoroughly revised, Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art--The Analytic Tradition: An Anthology captures this legacy in a comprehensive introduction to the core philosophical questions and conversations in aesthetics.
Through 57 key essays selected by leading scholars Peter Lamarque and Stein Haugom Olsen, this anthology collects modern classics as well as new contributions on essential topics such as the identification and ontology of art, interpretation, values of art, art and knowledge, and fiction and the imagination. New to this edition are selections which treat aesthetic experiencemore widely, including essays on the aesthetics of nature and aesthetics in everyday life. Other carefully-chosen pieces analyze the practice and experience of specific art forms in greater detail, including painting, photography, film, literature, music, and popular art such as comics.
This bestselling collection is an essential resource for students and scholars of aesthetics, designed to foster a foundational understanding of both long-standing and contemporary topics in the field.
PETER LAMARQUE is Professor of Philosophy at the University of York and was formerly editor of the British Journal of Aesthetics. His books include Fictional Points of View (1996), The Philosophy of Literature (2008), Work and Object: Explorations in the Metaphysics of Art (2010), and The Opacity of Narrative (2014). STEIN HAUGOM OLSEN is Professor of British Literature and Head of the Department of English Language and Literature at Bilkent University, Ankara. He was formerly the Pro-Rector of Østfold University College, Norway, and has held chairs in English, comparative literature, and philosophy at the universities of Oslo and Bergen and at Lingnan University, Hong Kong. His books include The Structure of Literary Understanding (1978), The End of Literary Theory (1987), and Truth, Fiction, and Literature (1994) (with Peter Lamarque).
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Acknowledgments x
Extracts from the General Introduction to the First Edition (2004) xiii
General Introduction to the Second Edition xvii
Part I Identifying Art 1
Introduction 3
1 The Artworld 7 Arthur C. Danto
2 The New Institutional Theory of Art 15 George Dickie
3 An Aesthetic Definition of Art 22 Monroe C. Beardsley
4 "But They Don't Have Our Concept of Art" 30 Denis Dutton
5 Nobody Needs a Theory of Art 43 Dominic McIver Lopes
6 Art: What it Is and Why it Matters 54 Catharine Abell
Part II Ontology of Art 67
Introduction 69
7 What a Musical Work Is 71 Jerrold Levinson
8 Defending Musical Platonism 84 Julian Dodd
9 Against Musical Ontology 98 Aaron Ridley
10 The Ontology of Art and Knowledge in Aesthetics 108 Amie L. Thomasson
Part III Aesthetic Properties and Aesthetic Experience 117
Introduction 119
11 Aesthetic Concepts 121 Frank Sibley
12 Categories of Art 134 Kendall L. Walton
13 In Defence of Moderate Aesthetic Formalism 149 Nick Zangwill
14 How to Be a Pessimist about Aesthetic Testimony 159 Robert Hopkins
15 Recent Approaches to Aesthetic Experience 170 Noël Carroll
Part IV Intention and Interpretation 183
Introduction 185
16 Intentions and Interpretations: A Fallacy Revived 187 Monroe C. Beardsley
17 The Literary Work as a Pliable Entity: Combining Realism and Pluralism 197 Torsten Pettersson
18 Authors' Intentions, Literary Interpretation, and Literary Value 208 Stephen Davies
Part V Values of Art 223
Introduction 225
19 Originals, Copies, and Aesthetic Value 229 Jack W. Meiland
20 Artistic Value 236 Malcolm Budd
21 The Ethical Criticism of Art 247 Berys Gaut
22 Artistic Value and Opportunistic Moralism 258 Eileen John
23 What's Wrong with the (Female) Nude? A Feminist Perspective on Art and Pornography 266 A.W. Eaton
Part VI Art and Knowledge 283
Introduction 285
24 On the Cognitive Triviality of Art 289 Jerome Stolnitz
25 Art and Moral Knowledge 295 Cynthia A. Freeland
26 Reading Fiction and Conceptual Knowledge: Philosophical Thought in Literary Context 310 Eileen John
27 Cognitive Values in the Arts: Marking the Boundaries 326 Peter Lamarque
Part VII Fictionality and Imagination 337
Introduction 339
28 Fearing Fictions 343 Kendall L. Walton
29 The Logical Status of Fictional Discourse 355 John Searle
30 The Expression of Feeling in Imagination 363 Richard Moran
31 The Puzzle of Imaginative Resistance 378 Tamar Szabó Gendler
32 Anne Brontë and the Uses of Imagination 393 Gregory Currie
33 Fiction as a Genre 402 Stacie Friend
Part VIII Pictorial Art 417
Introduction 419
34 On Pictorial Representation 421 Richard Wollheim
35 Pictorial Realism 431 Catharine Abell
36 Telling Pictures: The Place of Narrative in Late Modern 'Visual Art' 441 David Davies
Part IX Photography and Film 451
Introduction 453
37 Photography and Representation 457 Roger Scruton
38 Photography and Causation: Responding to Scruton's Scepticism 472 Dawn M. Phillips
39 Cinematic Art 483 Berys Gaut
40 Theses on Cinema as Philosophy 496 Paisley Livingston
41 Narration in Motion 503 Katherine J. Thomson-Jones
