Contemplating art : essays in aesthetics / / Jerrold Levinson.

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Year of Publication:2006
Language:English
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Physical Description:viii, 423 p.
Notes:Includes index.
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Table of Contents:
  • The irreducible historicality of the concept of art
  • Artworks as artifacts
  • Emotion in response to art
  • Elster on artistic creativity
  • Sound, gesture, space, and the expression of emotion in music
  • Musical expressiveness as hearability-as-expression
  • Nonexistent artforms and the case of visual music
  • Music as narrative and music as drama
  • Film music and narrative agency
  • Evaluating music
  • Musical thinking
  • Musical chills
  • Wollheim on pictorial representation
  • What is erotic art?
  • Erotic art and pornographic pictures
  • Two notions of interpretation
  • Who's afraid of a paraphrase?
  • Hypothetical intentionalism : statement, objections, and replies
  • Aesthetic properties, evaluative force, anddifferences of sensibility
  • What are aesthetic properties?
  • Schopenhauer's aesthetics
  • Hume's Standard of taste : the real problem
  • The concept of humor
  • Intrinsic value and the notion of a life.