Philosophy of the Performing Arts

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Foundations of the Philosophy of the Arts Series Editor: Philip Alperson, Temple University The Foundations of the Philosophy of ...

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Part One Performance and the Classical Paradigm Preface and Acknowledgments viii 1 The Nature of Artistic Performance 1 Introdu ...

In philosophical aesthetics, there has been a recent turn towards what is called “philosophy of the arts.” The assumption underl ...

PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix widespread assumption that classical music provides us with a model for the performing arts as a ...

x PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS of years, either through raising questions at presentations or less formally in discussions at con ...

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4 performance and the classical paradigm is that our experiences of the performing arts, whether as performers or as spectators, ...

the nature of artistic performance 5 start by asking, in the most general way, what leads us to talk of a particular event as a ...

6 performance and the classical paradigm assessment. But this by itself obviously fails to distinguish performances from mere ac ...

the nature of artistic performance 7 becomes more common, his parents may become immune to his tantrums, so that none of the exp ...

8 performance and the classical paradigm The theater is Dickie’s primary example of a system of the artworld. In the theater, “t ...

the nature of artistic performance 9 must be accommodated, he is wrong, as we shall now see, to think that the institutional the ...

10 performance and the classical paradigm artistic performances can take place. I shall explore below the suggestion that the pr ...

the nature of artistic performance 11 Beardsley’s conception of “aesthetic experience” underwent a number of changes. He increas ...