Music, Art, and Metaphysics: Essays in Philosophical.

Though it is only twenty years since the publication of Music, Art, and Metaphysics, some of the essays in the book first appeared over thirty years ago, and the thinking in them, as far as that is concerned, goes back to my graduate studies of almost forty years ago.

This is a long-awaited reissue of Jerrold Levinson's 1990 book which gathers together the writings that made him a leading figure in contemporary aesthetics. These highly influential essays are essential reading for debates on the definition of art, the ontology of art, emotional response to art, expression in art, and the nature of art forms.

Description: Jerrold Levinson, one of the most prominent philosophers of art today, presents a new collection of essays, following on from his four previous collections, Music, Art and Metaphysics (1990), The Pleasures of Aesthetics (1996), Contemplating Art (2006), and Musical Concerns (2015). Aesthetic Pursuits specifically complements Levinson's last volume, Musical Concerns, by collecting.

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Most of the essays are distinguished by a concern with metaphysical questions about artworks and theirproperties, but other essays address the problem of art's definition, the psychology of aesthetic response, and the logic of interpreting and evaluating works of art. The focus of about half of the essays is the art of music, the art of greatest interest to Levinson throughout his career.

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Music, Art, and Metaphysics, 2011, 419 pages, Jerrold Levinson, 0199596638, 9780199596638, OUP Oxford, 2011. gathers together the writings that made him a leading figure in contemporary aesthetics. Most of the essays are distinguished by a concern with metaphysical questions about artworks and their properties, but other essays address the.

Music critics second the idea that music can be conceived is a form of philosophizing along the lines of primum vivere deindre philosophari49 (music perceived as a means of enhancing life), Malcolm Boyd50, in specific, refers to Bach's oeuvre (and especially the Art Of Fugue51 )as existing 'in a world far removed from the musica humana of our own, where music, mathematics and philosophy are.

This book presents work by Jerrold Levinson, one of the most prominent philosophers of art today, which follows in the line of his four earlier collections, Music, Art and Metaphysics (1990), The Pleasures of Aesthetics (1996), Contemplating Art (2006), and Musical Concerns (2015). This book specifically complements the last of those by collecting recent work not concerned with music, the art.

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.

Jerrold Levinson, one of the most prominent philosophers of art today, presents a new collection of essays, following on from his four previous collections, Music, Art and Metaphysics (1990), The Pleasures of Aesthetics (1996), Contemplating Art (2006), and Musical Concerns (2015).