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
90
PART THREE ONTOLOGY AND DEFINITION OF
127
Art as Action
138
Extending Art Historically
150
IO Intention and Interpretation in Literature
175
Philosophy as an Art
214
Work and Oeuvre
242
Horrible Fictions
277
Index
307
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The Work of Visual Art
129

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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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