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
