What is required for a listener to understand a piece of music? Does aural understanding depend upon reflective awareness of musical architecture or large-scale musical structure? Jerrold Levinson thinks not.
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.
The 24 essays range over issues in general aesthetics and those relating to specific arts - in particular music, film, and literature.
This volume presents a new collection of essays, all of them dealing with music, by Jerrold Levinson, one of the most prominent philosophers of art today.
More than half of the essays in the volume are previously unpublished.
The essays in this book discuss fundamental issues of modern and contemporary aesthetics, drawing upon the work of the French philosopher Jean- Pierre Cometti, a key figure in the studies of aesthetics, pragmatism, and Austrian philosophy.
Pour Jerrold Levinson, le rapport des oeuvres d'art à l'histoire entre dans la définition même de l'art, d'un point de vue à la fois ontologique, interprétatif et évaluatif.
Contemplar el arte es una colección de ensayos de Jerrold Levinson, una de las principales figuras de la estética contemporánea.