Surface and depth: dialectics of criticism and culture

Ithaca: Cornell University Press (2002)
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If aesthetics is both surface and depth, impassioned immediacy yet also critical distance of judgment, how can this doubleness be held together in one ...

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BH201.S485 2002

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0801438284   0801486831

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10.7591/9781501718151
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Preface

Introduction

1. On Analytic Aesthetics: From Empiricism to Metaphysics

2. Logics of Interpretation: The Persistence of Pluralism

3. Croce on Interpretation: Deconstruction and Pragmatism

4. Wittgenstein and Critical Reasoning

5. Of the Scandal of Taste: Social Privilege as Nature in the Aesthetics of Hume and Kant

6. Convention: Variations on the Nature/Culture Theme

7. From Natural Roots to Cultural Radicalism: Pragmatist Aesthetics in Alain Locke and John Dewey

8. Eliot and Adorno on the Critique of Culture

9. Deep Theory and Surface Blindness: On the Aesthetic Visibility of Print

10. Art in a Box: Danto

11. Pragmatism and Culture: Margolis and Rorty

12. Cultural Analysis and the Limits of Philosophy: The Case of Bourdieu

13. Art as Dramatization

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