Aesthetic Pursuits

Jerrold Levinson is Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy at the University of Maryland and past president of the American Society for Aesthetics, 2001-2003. He is the author of four collections of essays, Music, Art, and Metaphysics (Cornell Univeristy Press 1990, 2nd ed. Oxford Univeristy Press 2010), The Pleasures of Aesthetics (Cornell Univeristy Press 1996), Contemplating Art (Oxford Univeristy Press 2006), and Musical Concerns (Oxford Univeristy Press 2015). He has also published a monograph, Music in the Moment (Cornell Univeristy Press 1998) and is the editor of Aesthetics and Ethics (Cambridge Univeristy Press 1998), Oxford Handbook of Aesthetics (Oxford Univeristy Press 2003), and Suffering Art Gladly (Palgrave/Macmillan 2013).

• Introduction 1: Farewell to the Aesthetician? 2: Aesthetic Contextualism 3: Toward an Adequate Conception of Aesthetic Experience 4: Artistic Achievement and Artistic Value 5: Artistic Worth and Personal Taste 6: Falling in Love with a Book 7: Immoral Jokes 8: Beauty Is Not One: The Irreducible Variety of Visual Beauty 9: Emotional Upheavals 10: Artful Intentions 11: Defending Hypothetical Intentionalism 12: Seeing, Imaginarily, at the Movies 13: Sound in Film: Design versus Commentary