The British Journal of Aesthetics articles from July 1997

The British Journal of Aesthetics archives from July 1997

Singing and speaking.
July 1, 1997... After years of laborious publication on the philosophy of art in general and music in particular, I was twice asked by colleagues why I had never written about song. One of these colleagues was in musical performance, the other was a...

Plotinus and his portrait.
July 1, 1997... How in the name of Heaven can he escape That defiling and disfigured shape The mirror of malicious eyes Casts upon his eyes until at last He thinks that shape must be his shape? (W. B. Yeats, A Dialogue of Self and Soul) I ...

Art and aesthetics. (type and token)
July 1, 1997... There is a well known distinction between types and tokens(1) which supports comparable distinctions between creation and making, and art and craft. Thus Glickman says `Particulars are made, types created',(2) and Collingwood says `Making an...

On non-verbal representation.
July 1, 1997... INTRODUCTION Among the problems raised by representational practices the most fundamental are surely those arising in connection with representations that might as well--in the unassuming terms of ordinary language--be called...

Hume's moral sublime.
July 1, 1997... While there was, at one time, some debate about how to classify Hume's conception of the sublime in A Treatise of Human Nature,(1) most of that debate centred around the distinction between Longiman `rhetorical' sublimity, as it is...

Sparkle and shine. (aesthetics)
July 1, 1997... When I was a child I watched Mister Clean swirl through the kitchen to transform it into something that sparkles and shines. Today, we associate these qualities with extremes of cleanliness. To that extent we also sometimes reject them as...

Dance metaphors: a reply to Julie Van Camp. (British Journal of Aesthetics, vol. 36, April 1996)
July 1, 1997... In her recent article Julie Van Camp is of the opinion that I have not made a convincing case that there is such a thing as non-verbal metaphor or that it accounts for meaning in dance.(1) As she and I are wide apart on a number of points, and...

Understanding Pictures.
July 1, 1997... By DOMINIC LOPES. Oxford U.P. pp. 240, 27 illus. 30.00 [pounds sterling]. What is special about representation by pictures? Dominic Lopes thinks that the way to answer this question is through an account of how it is that we interpret them....

The Pleasures of Aesthetics.
July 1, 1997... By JERROLD LEVINSON. Cornell U.P. 1996. pp. 312. Cloth: 39.00 [pounds sterling]; paper: 15.00 [pounds sterling]. This collection is a thought-provoking, enjoyable read; Jerrold Levinson is a clear and engaging writer. However, it suffers in...

Post-Theory: Reconstructing Film Studies.
July 1, 1997... By DAVID BORDWELL and NOEL CARROLL (eds.). University of Wisconsin Press. 1996. pp. xvii + 560. Paper: 16.00 [pounds sterling]. The editors of this hefty collection plainly take themselves to be engaged in a fundamental conflict with a...

Negotiations: 1972-1990.
July 1, 1997... By GILLES DELEUZE. Translated by Martin Joughin. Columbia U.P. European Perspectives Series. 1995. pp. 221. $35. This curious pot-pourri of interviews and articles, originally published in France as Pourparlers in 1990, is billed by the...

In Defense of Humanism: Value in the Arts and Letters.
July 1, 1997... By RICHARD A. ETLIN. Cambridge University Press. 1996. pp. xx. + 283, 48 b. & w. plates. Cloth: 30.00 [pounds sterling]. The books's title suggests the welcome task Etlin sets himself. For, in the face of arguments dominant in...

Faces in the Clouds.
July 1, 1997... By STEWART GUTHRIE. Oxford U.P. 1993; 1995. xii + 290 pp. Paper: $0.95. Although the prevalence of anthropomorphism is a familiar thought, this book seeks to show that it is vastly more prevalent than is commonly realized--indeed, in one...

Winckelmann and the Notion of Aesthetic Education.
July 1, 1997... By JEFFREY MORRISON. Clarendon Press. 1996. pp. 274. 40.00 [pounds sterling]. Ever since the Renaissance, it was a commonplace to follow in the steps of Durer, Montaigne, and others, and go to Italy; and the mid-eighteenth century saw a...

Beyond Representation: Philosophy and Poetic Imagination.
July 1, 1997... Edited by RICHARD ELDRIDGE. Cambridge Studies in the Arts. Cambridge U.P. 1996. xii + 306. 35.00 [pounds sterling]. This new collection of essays, most of which were specially written for this collection, offers itself as a study of the way...

On Interpretation: Meaning and Inference in Law, Psychoanalysis, and Literature.
July 1, 1997... By PATRICK COLM HOGAN. University of Georgia Press. 1996. pp. 235. $45.00. This book ends rather than begins with a cautionary tale. The author tells us how he was obliged to read two PhD qualifying exams, one of which stated that a refusal...