Ebook: Danto and His Critics

DANTO AND HIS CRITICS -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Selected Bibliography of the Works of Arthur Danto -- Introduction -- Part I: System and Method -- 1 Danto as Systematic Philosopher, or Comme on lit Danto en français -- 2 Danto's Gallery of Indiscernibles -- Part II: Intention and Interpretation -- 3 The Invisible Content of Visual Art -- 4 Déjà vu All Over Again: How Danto's Aesthetics Recapitulates the Philosophy of Mind -- 5 Surface and Deep Interpretation -- 6 "Other Pictures We Look at, -- His Prints We Read": Danto Reading Lamb Reading Hogarth on the Art of the Commonplace -- Part III: Philosophy of Art -- 7 A Tale of Two Artworlds -- 8 Essence, Expression, and History: Arthur Danto's Philosophy of Art -- 9 Danto's New Definition of Art and the Problem of Art Theories -- 10 Danto and Kant: Together at Last? -- 11 Atomism, Art, and Arthur: Danto's Hegelian Turn -- Part IV: Historical Knowledge -- 12 Art and Its Doubles: Danto, Foucault, and Their Simulacra -- 13 The Beginning of the End: Danto on Postmodernism -- 14 Danto's Aesthetic: Is It Truly General As He Claims? -- Part V: What Philosophy Is -- 15 Art as Religion: Transfigurations of Danto's Dao -- 16 Looking Beyond the Visible: The Case of Arthur Dantwo -- Part VI: Responses -- 17 Replies to Essays -- Afterword: Not by a Soap Box but First by a Kiss -- Index.;Updated and revised, the Second Edition of Danto and His Critics presents a series of essays by leading Danto scholars who offer their critical assessment of the influential works and ideas of Arthur C. Danto, the Johnsonian Professor Emeritus in the Department of Philosophy at Columbia University and long-time art critic for The Nation. Reflects Danto's revisions in his theory of art, reworking his views in ways that have not been systematically addressed elsewhereFeatures essays that critically assess the changes in Danto's thoughts and locate Danto's revised theory in the larger context of.