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Philosophy of Art

The philosophy of art is the philosophical investigation of what art is, what makes something beautiful, what aesthetic experience consists in, and why any...

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The philosophy of art is the philosophical investigation of what art is, what makes something beautiful, what aesthetic experience consists in, and why any of it matters. The discipline is as old as Plato's Republic and as current as last week's debate about whether AI-generated images are art. Key sections include: Philosophy of Art.; Opening What we ask of art.; Chapter I Plato banishes the poets.; Chapter II Aristotle answers.; Chapter III The Neoplatonic interlude.; Chapter IV Hume on taste.; Chapter V Kant's third Critique.; Chapter VI Schiller's aesthetic education.; Chapter VII Hegel and the end of art.; Chapter VIII Schopenhauer and music..

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  1. 01Philosophy of Art.
  2. 02Opening What we ask of art.
  3. 03Chapter I Plato banishes the poets.
  4. 04Chapter II Aristotle answers.
  5. 05Chapter III The Neoplatonic interlude.
  6. 06Chapter IV Hume on taste.
  7. 07Chapter V Kant's third Critique.
  8. 08Chapter VI Schiller's aesthetic education.
  9. 09Chapter VII Hegel and the end of art.
  10. 10Chapter VIII Schopenhauer and music.
  11. 11Chapter IX Nietzsche on the Apollonian and Dionysian.
  12. 12Chapter X Tolstoy: art as transmission.
  13. 13Chapter XI Heidegger on the artwork.
  14. 14Chapter XII Adorno's negative aesthetics.
  15. 15Chapter XIII Significant form.
  16. 16Chapter XIV The institutional theory.
  17. 17Chapter XV Danto and the end of art.
  18. 18Chapter XVI Goodman on symbol systems.
  19. 19Chapter XVII Carroll on the historical narrative theory.
  20. 20Chapter XVIII Levinson and the aesthetic.
  21. 21Chapter XIX The evolutionary turn.
  22. 22Chapter XX The return of beauty.
  23. 23Chapter XXI AI art and the contemporary frontier.
  24. 24Chapter XXI-pre Dewey on art as experience.
  25. 25Chapter XXI-bis Bourdieu on the social field.
  26. 26Chapter XXI-ter Philosophy of music.
  27. 27Chapter XXI-quat Fiction and emotion.
  28. 28Chapter XXII The shelf.
  29. 29Chapter XXIII Watch & read.
  30. 30Colophon
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