The Pleasures of Aesthetics: Philosophical Essays

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Cornell University Press, 1996 - Art - 312 pages
 

Contents

What Is Aesthetic Pleasure?
3
Pleasure and the Value of Works of Art II
11
PART TWO AESTHETICS OF MUSIC
25
Musical Literacy
27
Song and Music Drama
42
Performative versus Critical Interpretation in Music
60
Musical Expressiveness १०
90
PART THREE ONTOLOGY AND DEFINITION OF
127
PART FOUR INTERPRETING
173
Intention and Interpretation in Literature
175
Philosophy as an Art
214
Messages in Art
224
Work and Oeuvre
242
PART FIVE UNDERSTANDING FICTION
275
Horrible Fictions
277
Making Believe
287

The Work of Visual Art
129
Art as Action
138
Extending Art Historically
150

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Jerrold Levinson is Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is the author of Music, Art, and Metaphysics, Music in the Moment, and The Pleasures of Aesthetics, all from Cornell, and the editor of the Oxford Handbook of Aesthetics.

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