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Author:   Noël Carroll (, City University of New York)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.70cm , Height: 3.90cm , Length: 24.30cm
Weight:   1.006kg
ISBN:  

9780199559312

ISBN 10:   0199559317
Pages:   550
Publication Date:   15 July 2010
Audience:   General/trade ,  Adult education ,  General ,  Further / Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction Part I: Art 1: The Descent of Art 2: Formalism 3: Definitions of Art 4: Art, Creativity, and Tradition Part II: Aesthetic Experience 5: Aesthetic Experience: A Question of Content 6: Nonperceptual Aesthetic Properties 7: Aesthetic Experience, Art, and Artists Part III: Art and Value 8: Art and Alienation 9: Art and Recollection 10: Art and the Moral Realm 11: The Wheel of Virtue 12: Art and the Ethical Domain 13: Politics and Aesthetics Part IV: Art and Affect 14: Art and Human Nature 15: Art and Mood 16: On Some Affective Relations between Audiences and Characters in Popular Fictions Part V: Narrative and Humor 17: Narrative Closure 18: Narrative and the Ethical Life 19: Humor 20: Two Comic Plots Part VI: The Arts 21: Philosophy and Drama: performance, Interpretation and Intentionality 22: Literary Realism, Recognition, and the Communication of Knowledge 23: Dance, Imitation, and Representation 24: Feeling Movement: Music and Dance 25: Music, Mind, and Morality: Arousing the Body Politic

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Over the past two decades Noel Carroll has established himself as one of the most eminent contemporary philosophers of art. This collection brings together many of the essays on which his reputation is based. The book's title alludes not to sculpture but to a theme that unifies these essays: art is and ought to be part of the fabric of our lives and it can only be understood when it is seen in its full social, cultural and biological context... The twenty-five essays in this book are always insightful, thoughtful and provocative. Every page is informed by deep and wide appreciation of the arts as well as philosophical erudition. James O. Young, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

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Noël Carroll is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the Graduate Center, the City University of New York. He is a former President of the American Society for Aesthetics.

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