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Philosophy and Art

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The 13 essays in this collection are marked by a diversity of philosophical styles and perspectives on art. While some authors focus on specific forms of art, others are more concerned with the interpretation given to art by past and contemporary philosophers and artists. In some essays nothing less than the outline of a systematic account of the arts is ventured, even as other authors raised the question of the very possibility of such interpretations or argue for the conditions that must be met by an adequate account or evaluation of the arts. Yet, in one way or another, all the essays address the question of specifying the distinctiveness of artworks or art itself.
Providence and imitation - Sophocles's "Oedipus" and Aristotle's "Poetics", Thomas Prufer; understanding theatre, Paul Woodruff; objects of appreciation - early reflections on television, with further remarks on baseball, Ted Cohen; Narcissus and Pygmalion - lessons of two tales, Karsten Harries; the nature of art's nature; Joseph Margolis; some issues in a neothomis philosophy of art, Francis J.Kovach; who's afraid of Marcel Duchamp, John Brough; the bounds of art, Kenneth Schmitz; creativity and beauty, Paul Weiss; aesthetics in the Kantian project, Robert Wood; aspects of Schiller's philosophy of art, Walter Hinderer; art, origins, otherness - Hegel and aesthetic self-mediation, William Desmond; the religion of art, Daniel O.Dahlstrom.
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