Philosophy Looks at the Arts: Contemporary Readings in Aesthetics

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Joseph Margolis
Temple University Press, 1987 - 605 páginas
The first edition of this widely used anthology offered a needed introduction to a new analytic aesthetics which has in the intervening years become even more influential. This new, revised and expanded edition has been designed by one of the leaders of the field to help define the structure of current aesthetics. Of the 24 articles included more than half are new to this edition. The new edition emphasizes opposing currents in aesthetics with contributions from the most active and influential writers in the field. It is a basic book for any library and is designed to provide both undergraduate and graduate students with a professional orientation in aesthetics. Author note: Joseph Margolis is Professor of Philosophy at Temple University. He is the author or editor of twelve other books as well as numerous articles.

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Part One Aesthetic Interests and Aesthetic Qualities
1
2
18
Aesthetic Concepts
29
3
45
Categories of
53
4
77
5
85
The Myth of the Aesthetic Attitude
100
Representation as Expression Peter Kivy
319
Puzzles of Pictorial Representation Joseph Margolis
338
Bibliography
358
The Intentional Fallacy
367
Intention and Interpretation in Criticism Frank Cioffi
381
Expressive Properties of Art Guy Sircello
400
A Critique Alan Tormey
421
Gadamers Theory of Interpretation E D Hirsch Jr
438

6
115
7
131
The Role of Theory in Aesthetics
143
The Artworld
154
9
168
Remarks on a Proposal
186
Bibliography
200
Art and Its Objects
208
Nicholas Wolterstorff
229
The Ontological Peculiarity of Works of
253
Nelson Goodman
261
Part Four Representation in Art
279
Picturing and Representing Marx W Wartofsky
307
Bibliography
455
The Testability of an Interpretation Monroe C Beardsley
466
Robust Relativism Joseph Margolis
484
Hermeneutical Experience H G Gadamer
499
From Work to Text Roland Barthes
518
Bibliography
525
Metaphor Max Black
535
The End of the Book and the Beginning of Writing
553
Metaphor and the Central Problem of Hermeneutics
577
Bibliography
593
Index
601
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