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<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" link="#0000FF" vlink="#CC0000" alink="#CC0000"><center><hr width="350" size="1" align="center" noshade>This revised and expanded edition helps define the structure of current aesthetics<hr width="350" size="1" align="center" noshade><p><a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/ChicagoBook.aspx?ISBN=9780877224396&&PRESS=temple" target="_top">Buy this book!</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">View Cart</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">Check Out</a></p><p><img src="146_reg.gif" height=200 border=1 vspace=4></p></center><!--none//--><h1>Philosophy Looks at the Arts</h1>
<H2>Contemporary Readings in Aesthetics</H2>
<H2>Third Edition</H2>
<h3>edited by Joseph Margolis</h3>
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<BR> 500 pp
</P><BLOCKQUOTE><I>"...the best anthology in the current literature, edited by one of the leaders in the field."</I>
<br>—<b><I>Educational Book Review</I></b><I></I></BLOCKQUOTE>
<p>The first edition of this widely used anthology offered a needed introduction to a new analytic aesthetics which has in the intervening years become even more influential. This new, revised and expanded edition has been designed by one of the leaders of the field to help define the structure of current aesthetics. Of the 24 articles included more than half are new to this edition.
<p>The new edition emphasizes opposing currents in aesthetics with contributions from the most active and influential writers in the field. It is a basic book for any library and is designed to provide both undergraduate and graduate students with a professional orientation in aesthetics.
<BR> <h2>Excerpt</h2><P>Excerpt available at <a href="http://www.temple.edu/tempress">www.temple.edu/tempress</a></p>
<BR> <h2>Contents</h2><P>
<p>Preface
<p><b>Part I: The Nature of Aesthetic Interests</b>
<br>1. The Aesthetic Point of View – Monroe C . Beardsley
<br>2. Piece: Contra Aesthetics – Timothy Binkley
<br>3. Aesthetic Theory and the Experience of Art – R. K . Elliott
<br>Bibliography
<p><b>Part II: Aesthetic Qualities</b>
<br>4. Aesthetic Concepts – F . N. Sibley
<br>5. Categories of Art – Kendall L . Walton
<br>Bibliography
<p><b>Part III: The Definition of Art</b>
<br>6. The Role of Theory in Aesthetics – Morris Weitz
<br>7 . The Artworld – Arthur Danto
<br>8 . Creativity in the Arts – Jack Glickman
<br>Bibliography
<p><b>Part IV: The Ontology of Art</b>
<br>9. Art and Its Objects – Richard Wollheim
<br>10. Toward an Ontology of Art Works – Nicholas Wolterstorff
<br>11. The Ontological Peculiarity of Works of Art – Joseph Margolis
<br>Bibliography
<p><b>Part V: Representation in Art</b>
<br>12. Reality Remade – Nelson Goodman
<br>13. <i>On</i> Drawing an Object – Richard Wollheim
<br>14. Depiction, Vision, and Convention – Patrick Maynard
<br>Bibliography
<p><b>Part VI: The Intentional Fallacy and Expressive Qualities</b>
<br>15. The Intentional Fallacy – W. K. Wimsatt and Monroe C. Beardsley
<br>16. Intention and Interpretation in Criticism – Frank Cioffi
<br>17. Expressive Properties of Art – Guy Sircello
<br>18. Art and Expression: A Critique – Alan Tormey
<br>Bibliography
<p><b>Part VII: The Objectivity of Criticism</b>
<br>19. The Testability of an Interpretation – Monroe C. Beardsley
<br>20. Robust Relativism – Joseph Margolis
<br>21. Critical Communication – Arnold Isenberg
<br>Bibliography
<p><b>Part VIII: Fiction and Metaphor</b>
<br>22. The Language of Fiction – Margaret Macdonald
<br>23. Possible but Unactual Objects: On What There Isn't – Alvin Plantinga
<br>24. Metaphor – Max Black
<br>Bibliography
<p>Notes on the Contributors
<br>Index
</P><BR> <H2>About the Author(s)</H2>
<P><b>Joseph Margolis</b> is Professor of Philosophy at Temple University. He is the author or editor of twelve other books as well as numerous articles.</P>
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