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Music, art, and metaphysics : essays in philosophical aesthetics

"This is a long-awaited reissue of Jerrold Levinson's 1990 book Music, Art, and Metaphysics, which 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 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. Many of the essays have been very influential, being among the most cited in contemporary aesthetics and having become essential references in debates on the definition of art, the ontology of art, emotional response to art, expression in art, and the nature of art forms."--Publisher's website
Print Book, English, 2011
Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2011
xx, 419 pages : music ; 23 cm
9780199596638, 9780199596621, 0199596638, 019959662X
710813105
Part One: Art and History. Defining Art Historically ; Hybrid Art Forms ; Refining Art Historically
Part Two: Metaphysics of Art. What a Musical Work Is ; Autographic and Allographic Art ; Aesthetic Uniqueness ; Aesthetic Supervenience ; Titles ; Artworks and the Future ; What a Musical Work Is, Again
Part Three: Musical Matters. The Concept of Music ; Truth in Music ; Music and Negative Emotion ; Hope in The Hebrides ; Evaluating Musical Performance
Previous edition: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 1990