Contemplating art: essays in aesthetics

New York: Oxford University Press (2006)
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Abstract

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.

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Schopenhauer's Aesthetics

This essay explores Schopenhauer's relationship to Kant, and stresses the extent to which the great pessimist's aesthetic philosophy relies on Kant's metaphysics even more than it does on Kant's aesthetics. It highlights the breadth of Schopenhauer's vision of the role of art and of the li... see more

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Quining qualia.Daniel C. Dennett - 1988 - In Anthony J. Marcel & E. Bisiach (eds.), Consciousness in Contemporary Science. Oxford University Press.
How can we fear and pity fictions?Peter Lamarque - 1981 - British Journal of Aesthetics 21 (4):291-304.
Startle.Jenefer Robinson - 1995 - Journal of Philosophy 92 (2):53-74.
Listening with imagination: Is music representational?Kendall Walton - 1994 - Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 52 (1):47-61.

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