An Introduction to the Philosophy of Art

approach, Carroll objects that it is biased in favor of“radical works,”where “most artworks, including most fictions, are not mo ...

fully know in advance where it will lead. As Alexander Nehamas observes, “you can’t know in advance the sort of person [your ima ...

and works that aim as much at entertainment as at art. Attention, even when closely focused on a particular subject matter, may ...

are controversial, but they have clarification much more clearly in view as an aim, even if (some may judge) not wholly successf ...

discrimination, condemn Dickens for his sometime sentimentality, admire the scope and detail of Beethoven’s formal organization, ...

The special pertinence of this artistic achievement is that human life continually presents materials about which we do not know ...

dialect voices of Terry, Billy, Carl, and Andrew. Their experiences and voices have their own peculiar sublimity, a sublimity th ...

declining American pop singer who has fallen in with Terry and a few of his acquaintances for a day or two. In thinking about th ...

novel something of ethical significance: that here is a way of life with rich, interrelated virtues and vices, presenting proble ...

help us remain alert to life’s possibilities and our own potentialities. This is a benefit that is neither merely aesthetic, nor ...

10 Art and society: some contemporary practices of art The reproduction of social lifevis-a`-vis“infinite satisfaction” Presenti ...

Yet human social life is not always and only a matter of the continuing reproduction of the same. As Hegel observes, production– ...

You ask me why, even though the people, following their nature, elevate themselves above necessity and thus exist in a more mani ...

sagas that recount the myth-shrouded history of a people. Perhaps priests carrying out rituals in intimate relation with a publi ...

from the demands of liturgical or social use, and they value it and insist on its continuance. But they are also aware of the lo ...

our roles, our longing for“serenity”and“inner necessity.”It is from this longing that we project this serene condition on to the ...

on the impression that the objects [including the objects of both the natural and the social world] make upon him and only on th ...

the modern work of art presents in one way or another a lack of fit between actuality and the ideal. Schiller’s taxonomy of mode ...

soulless, technical avant-gardism, full of assertive self-importance but empty of any expressive clarification of emotion in rel ...

in her room upstairs from Mr. Collins, by the failures of reciprocity between Mr. and Mrs. Bennett, and by implication in the ro ...