Contents

Cover

Philosophers and Their Critics

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Notes on Contributors

Acknowledgements

Selected Bibliography of the Works of Arthur Danto

Introduction

Part I: System and Method

Chapter 1: Danto as Systematic Philosopher, or Comme on lit Danto en français

Chapter 2: Danto's Gallery of Indiscernibles

Part II: Intention and Interpretation

Chapter 3: The Invisible Content of Visual Art

1 Resemblance

2 Modularity

3 Conclusion

Chapter 4: Déjà vu All Over Again

Chapter 5: Surface and Deep Interpretation

1 Analogy with Human Action

2 The Dependency Theses

3 Are Deep Interpretations Weakly Dependent on Surface Interpretations?

4 Consequences for the Constitutive Dependency Thesis

Chapter 6: “Other Pictures We Look at, – His Prints We Read”

1 Reading Art

2 Other Pictures

3 The Commonplace

4 Transfiguration

5 Reading Prints

6 Ekphrasis

7 Moving Past

8 The Vulgar

9 Re-evaluating Values

10 Paragone

11 Exemplary Marsyas

12 Image–Word–Sound

13 Saints and Painters

14 Refiguring Error

Part III: Philosophy of Art

Chapter 7: A Tale of Two Artworlds

Chapter 8: Essence, Expression, and History

1 Essence and Expression: Danto's Philosophy of Art

2 The End of Art: Danto's Philosophy of Art History

3 A Critical Examination of Danto's Philosophy of Art

4 Concluding Remarks

Chapter 9: Danto's New Definition of Art and the Problem of Art Theories

Chapter 10: Danto and Kant

1 Danto and Kant

2 Recent Danto on Kant's Aesthetics

3 Late Danto's “Aesthetic Turn”?

4 Danto on Works of Art as “Embodied Meanings”

5 Danto on Metaphor

6 Metaphor in Kant

7 Kant on Aesthetic Ideas

8 Aesthetic Ideas, a Contemporary Example

Chapter 11: Atomism, Art, and Arthur

1 Hegel, Hegelianism, and Historicism

2 The Old Chisholm Trail: Historical Facts, Bits of Knowledge

3 Artworks, The Artworld, and The Brillo Box Revolution

4 The End of Art: Not the End at All

5 Individualism Triumphant

6 Danto and Nietzsche: A Hegelian Synthesis

Part IV: Historical Knowledge

Chapter 12: Art and Its Doubles

Chapter 13: The Beginning of the End

Chapter 14: Danto's Aesthetic

Part V: What Philosophy Is

Chapter 15: Art as Religion

1 Introduction: Danto's Philosophical Depth

2 Encountering Danto and Religion

3 Art and Religion

4 Transfigurations: Catholic, Pragmatist, and Zen

Chapter 16: Looking Beyond the Visible

Part VI: Responses

Chapter 17: Replies to Essays

Afterword: Not by a Soap Box but First by a Kiss

Index