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Aesthetics and the philosophy of art : the analytic tradition : an anthology /

Contributor(s): Series: Blackwell philosophy anthologies ; 21.Publisher: Malden, MA : Blackwell Publishing, 2004Description: xii, 571 pages : illustrations, music ; 26 cmISBN:
  • 140510581X
  • 9781405105811
  • 1405105828
  • 9781405105828
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Contents:
Identifying Art -- The Role of Theory in Aesthetics / Morris Weitz -- What Makes a Situation Aesthetic? / J.O. Urmson -- The Artworld / Arthur C. Danto -- Defining Art Historically / Jerrold Levinson -- The New Institutional Theory of Art / George Dickie -- An Aesthetic Definition of Art / Monroe C. Beardsley -- Weitz's Anti-Essentialism / Stephen Davies -- Ontology of Art -- The Ontological Peculiarity of Works of Art / Joseph Margolis -- What a Musical Work Is / Jerrold Levinson -- Platonism in Music: A Kind of Defense / Peter Kivy -- Art Works as Action Types / Gregory Currie -- Aesthetic Properties -- Aesthetic Concepts / Frank Sibley.
Summary: This anthology gives comprehensive coverage of the major contributions of analytic philosophy to aesthetics and the philosophy of art, from the earliest beginnings in the 1950s up to the present time.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifying Art -- The Role of Theory in Aesthetics / Morris Weitz -- What Makes a Situation Aesthetic? / J.O. Urmson -- The Artworld / Arthur C. Danto -- Defining Art Historically / Jerrold Levinson -- The New Institutional Theory of Art / George Dickie -- An Aesthetic Definition of Art / Monroe C. Beardsley -- Weitz's Anti-Essentialism / Stephen Davies -- Ontology of Art -- The Ontological Peculiarity of Works of Art / Joseph Margolis -- What a Musical Work Is / Jerrold Levinson -- Platonism in Music: A Kind of Defense / Peter Kivy -- Art Works as Action Types / Gregory Currie -- Aesthetic Properties -- Aesthetic Concepts / Frank Sibley.

This anthology gives comprehensive coverage of the major contributions of analytic philosophy to aesthetics and the philosophy of art, from the earliest beginnings in the 1950s up to the present time.

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