Danto and His Critics
Philosophers and their Critics
2. Edition April 2012
344 Pages, Hardcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
Updated and revised, the Second Edition of Danto and His
Critics presents a series of essays by leading Danto scholars
who offer their critical assessment of the influential works and
ideas of Arthur C. Danto, the Johnsonian Professor Emeritus in the
Department of Philosophy at Columbia University and long-time art
critic for The Nation.
* Reflects Danto's revisions in his theory of art, reworking his
views in ways that have not been systematically addressed
elsewhere
* Features essays that critically assess the changes in Danto's
thoughts and locate Danto's revised theory in the larger context of
his work and of aesthetics generally
* Speaks in original ways to the relation of Danto's philosophy
of art to his theory of mind
* Connects and integrates Danto's ideas on the nature of
knowledge, action, aesthetics, history, and mind, as well as his
provocative thoughts on the philosophy of art for the reader
Acknowledgments xi
Selected Bibliography of the Works of Arthur Danto xiii
Introduction 1
Mark Rollins
Part I System and Method 13
1 Danto as Systematic Philosopher, or Comme on lit Danto en
francais 15
David Carrier
2 Danto's Gallery of Indiscernibles 30
Richard Wollheim
Part II Intention and Interpretation 41
3 The Invisible Content of Visual Art 43
Mark Rollins
4 Deja vu All Over Again: How Danto's Aesthetics Recapitulates
the Philosophy of Mind 55
Jerry A. Fodor
5 Surface and Deep Interpretation 69
Peg Brand and Myles Brand
6 "Other Pictures We Look at, - His Prints We Read": Danto
Reading Lamb Reading Hogarth on the Art of the Commonplace 84
Lydia Goehr
Part III Philosophy of Art 109
7 A Tale of Two Artworlds 111
Postscript
George Dickie
8 Essence, Expression, and History: Arthur Danto's
Philosophy of Art 118
Noel Carroll
9 Danto's New Definition of Art and the Problem of Art Theories
146
Noel Carroll
10 Danto and Kant: Together at Last? 153
Diarmuid Costello
11 Atomism, Art, and Arthur: Danto's Hegelian Turn 172
Robert C. Solomon and Kathleen M. Higgins
Postscript
Kathleen M. Higgins
Part IV Historical Knowledge 197
12 Art and Its Doubles: Danto, Foucault, and Their Simulacra
Postscript 199
Gary Shapiro
13 The Beginning of the End: Danto on Postmodernism 215
Daniel Herwitz
14 Danto's Aesthetic: Is It Truly General As He Claims?
232
David Carrier
Part V What Philosophy Is 249
15 Art as Religion: Transfigurations of Danto's Dao 251
Richard Shusterman
16 Looking Beyond the Visible: The Case of Arthur Dantwo
267
Carlin Romano
Part VI Responses 283
17 Replies to Essays 285
Arthur C. Danto
Afterword: Not by a Soap Box but First by a Kiss 313
Arthur C. Danto
Index 317
through researchers/faculty. (Choice, 1 February
2013)
Danto and his Critics was always the best place to find
illuminating discussions of Danto's work, especially his philosophy
of art. The expanded edition brings it up date and makes it even
better.
Robert Stecker , Central Michigan University
Philosophy, the Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology Program, and the
Sam Fox School of Art and Visual Design at Washington University in
St. Louis. He is the author of several books on the role of images
in perception and cognition and as symbols in literature and
art.
