Contemporary Aesthetics

Readings
The following readings are in PDF (Adobe Acrobat) format. Note: All readings are password-protected.

Clive Bell: "Art as Significant Form"

Monroe C. Beardsley: "An Aesthetic Definition of Art"

Morris Weitz: "The Role of Theory in Aesthetics"

Stephen Davies: "Weitz's Anti-Essentialism"

Arthur C. Danto: "The Artworld"

George Dickie: "The New Institutional Theory of Art"

Peter Lamarque and Stein Haugom Olsen: "Literary Practice"

Jerrold Levinson: "Defining Art Historically"

Anthony Savile: "The Test of Time"

W.K. Wimsatt, Jr. and Monroe C. Beardsley: "The Intentional Fallacy"

Roland Barthes: "The Death of the Author"

Noël Carroll: "Art, Intention, and Conversation"

E.D. Hirsch, Jr.: "In Defense of the Author"

Jenefer Robinson: "Style and Personality in the Literary Work"

Jerrold Levinson: "Intention and Interpretation in Literature"

Gregory Currie: "Work and Text"

Jorge Luis Borges: "Pierre Menard: Author of the Quixote"

Robert Stecker: "The Constructivist's Dilemma"

Berys Gaut: "Interpreting the Arts: A Patchwork Theory"

Plato: Ion

Colin Radford: "How Can We Be Moved by the Fate of Anna Karenina?"

Eva Schaper: "Fiction and the Suspension of Disbelief"

Kendall Walton: "Fearing Fictions"

Peter Lamarque: "How Can We Fear and Pity Fictions?"

David Novitz: "Fiction, Imagination and Emotion"

Mark Sagoff: "On the Aesthetic and Economic Value of Art"

Berys Gaut: "The Ethical Criticism of Art"

Richard Serra: "Art and Censorship"

Mary Devereaux: "Protected Space: Politics, Censorship, and the Arts"

Richard Shusterman: "Aesthetic Censorship: Censoring Art for Art's Sake"

Noël Carroll: "Can Government Funding of the Arts Be Justified Theoretically?"

Joel Feinberg: "Not with My Tax Money: The Problem of Justifying Government Subsidies for the Arts"

Ernest van den Haag: "Should the Government Subsidize the Arts?"

Darren Hudson Hick: "Finding a Foundation: Copyright and the Creative Act"