The British Journal of Aesthetics articles from October 1998

The British Journal of Aesthetics archives from October 1998

FAREWELL TO DANTO AND GOODMAN.
October 1, 1998... There's a closet scandal that's been brewing in the philosophy of art for a good many years, noticed in passing by nearly everyone reasonably well informed, but only rarely mentioned explicitly and almost never closely analysed. The matter...

THE REDEMPTION OF ART.
October 1, 1998... PREAMBLE It is hardly striking that Iris Murdoch has an elevated view of art. She is, after all, both a novelist and a philosopher--an artist who believes the artistic enterprise is the best means of conveying goodness to a secular,...

NIETZSCHE AND THE PARADOX OF TRAGEDY.
October 1, 1998... In this paper I examine Friedrich Nietzsche's later writings on tragic drama. I claim that these thoughts are primarily devoted to deciphering the tragic response. Whilst this concern with the nature and significance of tragic art remains...

HEIDEGGER AND THE ONTOLOGICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF THE WORK OF ART.
October 1, 1998... I. INTRODUCTION Reflections upon works of art occupy a prominent place in Heidegger's writings from the 1930s onward. Heidegger's deep appreciation of and sustained interest in art manifested itself in the substantial space that he...

WHY KANT FINDS NOTHING UGLY.
October 1, 1998... Book One of Kant's Critique of Judgement (the `Analytic of the Beautiful') is an investigation of the judgement of taste about beauty--or, as Kant usually calls it, simply the judgement of taste. Since it seems obvious that there are...

MODERATE MORALISM VERSUS MODERATE AUTONOMISM.
October 1, 1998... Things are heating up among the moderates. First I published `Moderate Moralism' (British Journal of Aesthetics, vol. 36, no. 3, July 1996). Then James Anderson and Jeff Dean published `Moderate Autonomism' (BJA, vol. 38, no. 2, April 1998)...

The Languages of Landscape.
October 1, 1998... The Languages of Landscape. By MARK ROSKILL. Pennsylvania State U.P. 1997. pp. 289. 58.50 [pounds sterling]. MARK ROSKILL is a distinguished art historian and this book, despite a cover blurb, which badly exaggerates its theoretical...

Fictional Points of View.
October 1, 1998... Fictional Points of View. By PETER LAMARQUE. Cornell U.P. 1996. pp. xi + 224. $35.00. PETER LAMARQUE'S Fictional Points of View is largely based on essays that have been published before, many of which will be familiar to readers of this...

Kazimir Malevich and the Art of Geometry.
October 1, 1998... Kazimir Malevich and the Art of Geometry. By JOHN MILNER. Yale U.P. 1996. Pp. x + 237. 40.00 [pounds sterling]. VISITORS TO the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow, now fully open in its resplendent new building, experience a shock if they...

The Photograph: A Strange Confined Space.
October 1, 1998... The Photograph: A Strange Confined Space. By MARY PRICE. Stanford U.P. 1994. pp. 204. 10.95 [pounds sterling]. PRICE EXAMINES both actual photographs and fictional photographic images in literary texts to develop two main theses. Her...

Philosophy and the Arts: Seeing and Believing.
October 1, 1998... Philosophy and the Arts: Seeing and Believing. By ANDREW HARRISON. Thoemmes Press. 1997. pp. 209. 12.99 [pounds sterling]. THIS BOOK is in Bristol Introductions, a series on philosophical themes. Its editor, Ray Monk, strikes a slightly...

Phantom Formations: Aesthetic Ideology and the Bildungsroman.
October 1, 1998... Phantom Formations: Aesthetic Ideology and the Bildungsroman. By MARC REDFIELD. Cornell U.P. 1996. pp. xiv + 220. 27.50 [pounds sterling]. IN THE preface to Phantom Formations, Marc Redfield describes as its `central argument' the views...

Theorizing the Moving Image.
October 1, 1998... Theorizing the Moving Image. By NOEL CARROLL. Cambridge U.P. 1996. $16.95. COLLECTIONS of essays are often little more than bundles of offprints stitched together without much thought or organization. Theorizing the Moving Image is very...

Real Beauty.
October 1, 1998... Real Beauty. By EDDY M. ZEMACH. Pennsylvania State U.P. 1997. pp. xi + 222. 40.50 [pounds sterling] (cloth), 16.50 [pounds sterling] (paper). PROFESSOR ZEMACH'S book applies to problems in aesthetics a knowledge gained from a prolonged,...

Aesthetic Experience and Moral Judgment.
October 1, 1998... Aesthetic Experience and Moral Judgment. A Rehabilitation. By JOSEF FRUCHTL. Suhrkamp. 1996. pp. 519. DM 78.00. JOSEF FRUCHTL'S Habilitation is an attempt to illuminate the intricate relationship between aesthetics and ethics as it is...

Moving Pictures: A New Theory of Film Genres, Feelings, and Cognition.
October 1, 1998... Moving Pictures: A New Theory of Film Genres, Feelings, and Cognition. By TORBEN GRODAL. Clarendon Press. 1997. pp. 306. 40 [pounds sterling]. FILM THEORY in recent decades has acquired an unenviable reputation for barbarous jargon,...