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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Peter Lamarque (University of York)Publisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford University Press Dimensions: Width: 14.20cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 21.50cm Weight: 0.316kg ISBN: 9780199655496ISBN 10: 0199655499 Pages: 264 Publication Date: 28 June 2012 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsPreface 1: Introduction 2: On Bringing a Work into Existence 3: Work and Object 4: Distinctness and Indiscernibility in the Allographic Arts 5: Aesthetic Essentialism 6: Aesthetic Empiricism 7: Imitating Style 8: Objects of Interpretation 9: How to Create a Fictional Character 10: Art, Ontology and the End of Nausea 11: On Perceiving Conceptual ArtReviewsAll of the writings are scholarly and articulate, and the book they together compose would make a fine addition to any thinkers library. Jeffrey Strayer, Philosophy in Review Peter Lamarque's wittily titled book ... is to be welcomed for the way in which it demonstrates the significance of its subject matter and its centrality within the analytical canon. Employing his stylist philosophical prose, Lamaerque raises, and offers answers to, the central questions in the metaphysics of art. Furthermore, and I think this may be the work's prime source of value, the book elegantly combines and elaborates a set of answers to these questions in such a way as to complete the reader with a complete metaphysics of art that has claim to represent hegemonic opinion within the discipline. ... I really enjoyed this book. I recommend it heartily as an antidote to anyone tempted to think of the metaphysics of art as a philosophical backwater. * Julian Dodd, Mind * All of the writings are scholarly and articulate, and the book they together compose would make a fine addition to any thinkers library. * Jeffrey Strayer, Philosophy in Review * All of the writings are scholarly and articulate, and the book they together compose would make a fine addition to any thinkers library. * Jeffrey Strayer, Philosophy in Review * Peter Lamarque's wittily titled book ... is to be welcomed for the way in which it demonstrates the significance of its subject matter and its centrality within the analytical canon. Employing his stylist philosophical prose, Lamaerque raises, and offers answers to, the central questions in the metaphysics of art. Furthermore, and I think this may be the work's prime source of value, the book elegantly combines and elaborates a set of answers to these questions in such a way as to complete the reader with a complete metaphysics of art that has claim to represent hegemonic opinion within the discipline. ... I really enjoyed this book. I recommend it heartily as an antidote to anyone tempted to think of the metaphysics of art as a philosophical backwater. * Julian Dodd, Mind * All of the writings are scholarly and articulate, and the book they together compose would make a fine addition to any thinkers library. Jeffrey Strayer, Philosophy in Review Peter Lamarque's wittily titled book ... is to be welcomed for the way in which it demonstrates the significance of its subject matter and its centrality within the analytical canon. Employing his stylist philosophical prose, Lamaerque raises, and offers answers to, the central questions in the metaphysics of art. Furthermore, and I think this may be the work's prime source of value, the book elegantly combines and elaborates a set of answers to these questions in such a way as to complete the reader with a complete metaphysics of art that has claim to represent hegemonic opinion within the discipline. ... I really enjoyed this book. I recommend it heartily as an antidote to anyone tempted to think of the metaphysics of art as a philosophical backwater. Julian Dodd, Mind All of the writings are scholarly and articulate, and the book they together compose would make a fine addition to any thinkers library. * Jeffrey Strayer, Philosophy in Review * Peter Lamarque's wittily titled book ... is to be welcomed for the way in which it demonstrates the significance of its subject matter and its centrality within the analytical canon. Employing his stylist philosophical prose, Lamaerque raises, and offers answers to, the central questions in the metaphysics of art. Furthermore, and I think this may be the work's prime source of value, the book elegantly combines and elaborates a set of answers to these questions in such a way as to complete the reader with a complete metaphysics of art that has claim to represent hegemonic opinion within the discipline. ... I really enjoyed this book. I recommend it heartily as an antidote to anyone tempted to think of the metaphysics of art as a philosophical backwater. * Julian Dodd, Mind * Author InformationPeter Lamarque is Professor of Philosophy at the University of York. He joined the Department of Philosophy in 2000. Prior to that, he was Ferens Professor of Philosophy at the University of Hull and Head of the Philosophy Department between 1995 and 2000. He was a lecturer and then senior lecturer at the University of Stirling between 1972 and 1995. From 1995 to 2008 he was Editor of the British Journal of Aesthetics. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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