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.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction; PART ONE. ART; 1. The Irreducible Historicality of the Concept of Art; 2. Artworks as Artifacts; 3. Emotion in Response to Art; 4. Elster on Artistic Creativity; PART TWO. MUSIC; 5. Sound, Gesture, Space, and the Expression of Emotion in Music; 6. Musical Expressiveness as Hearability-as-Expression; 7. Non-existent Artforms and the Case of Visual Music; 8. Music as Narrative and Music as Drama; 9. Film Music and Narrative Agency; 10. Evaluating Music; 11. Musical Thinking; 12. Musical Chills; PART THREE. PICTURES; 13. Wollheim on Pictorial Representation; 14. What Is Erotic Art?; 15. Erotic Art and Pornographic Pictures; PART FOUR. INTERPRETATION; 16. Two Notions of Interpretation; 17. Who's Afraid of a Paraphrase?; 18. Hypothetical Intentionalism: Statement, Objections, and Replies; PART FIVE. AESTHETIC PROPERTIES; 19. Aesthetic Properties, Evaluative Force, and Differences of Sensibility; 20. What Are Aesthetic Properties?; PART SIX. HISTORY; 21. The Aesthetics of Schopenhauer; 22. Hume's Standard of Taste: The Real Problem; PART SEVEN. OTHER MATTERS; 23. The Concept of Humour; 24. Intrinsic Value and the Notion of a Life
