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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Gilmore, Jonathan, editor. | Goehr, Lydia, editor.
Title: A companion to Arthur C. Danto / edited by Jonathan Gilmore and Lydia Goehr.
Description: Frist edition. | Hoboken : John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 2022. |
Series: Blackwell companions to philosophy | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2021009894 (print) | LCCN 2021009895 (ebook) | ISBN 9781119154211 (hardback) | ISBN 9781119154228 (adobe pdf) | ISBN 9781119154235 (epub) | ISBN 9781119154242 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Danto, Arthur C., 1924-2013--Criticism and interpretation.
Classification: LCC B945.D364 C66 2022 (print) | LCC B945.D364 (ebook) | DDC 191--dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021009894
LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021009895
Cover image: © Photograph by D. James Dee
Cover design by Wiley
Set in 10/12.5pt PhotnalMTStd by Integra Software Services Pvt. Ltd, Pondicherry, India.
Contents
1 Cover
5 Preface
7 Introduction: Five Pieces for Arthur Danto (1924–2013) In memoriam
11 4 Sartre, Transparency, and Style
12 5 Nietzsche and Historical Understanding
13 6 Pragmatism between Art and Life
14 7 Danto on Dewey (and Dewey on Danto)
15 8 Thought Experiments: Art and Ethics
16 9 A Normative Perspective on Basic Actions
17 10 Cognitive Science and Art Criticism
22 15 Representation, Truth, and Historical Reality
23 16 History and Retrospection
24 17 Action in the Shadow of Time
26 19 Criticism and the Pale of History
27 20 Postmodernism and Its Discontents
28 21
