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Arts and Minds (Paperback)
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Philosophical questions about the arts go naturally with other
kinds of questions about them. Art is sometimes said to be an
historical concept. But where in our cultural and biological
history did art begin? If art is related to play and imagination,
do we find any signs of these things in our nonhuman relatives?
Sometimes the other questions look like ones the philosopher of art
has to answer. Anyone who thinks that interpretation in the arts is
an activity that leaves the intentions of the author behind needs
to explain how and why this differs so fundamentally from ordinary
conversational interpretation, where the only decent models we have
are ones that depend crucially on the recovery of intention. Anyone
who thinks that imaginative literature has anything to tell us
about time had better have a position on how earlier and later
relate to past and future. Anyone who thinks that empathy plays a
role in literary engagement had better have a psychologically
plausible account of what empathy is.
Philosophical questions about the arts also go naturally with other
kinds of philosophical questions: we can't think constructively
about representation in art without thinking about representation;
text, meaning, reference and existence get similarly drawn into the
conversation. Some ideas that philosophers of art deal with emerge
from other disciplines. In literary theory an enormous amount of
attention has been lavished on tracing the sources of unreliability
in narrative. Is the result adequate to the details of the
particular works we call unreliable? Contemporary film theory is
generally hostile to the fiction/documentary distinction. Are there
in fact any grounds for this?
This book of thirteen connected essays examines questions of all
these kinds. It ranges from the semantics of proper names, through
the pragmatics of literary and filmic interpretation, to the
aesthetic function of stone age implements. Some of the essays have
not been published before; some that have are here substantially
revised.
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