• Blackwell Companion to Aesthetics (edited book)
    with Stephen Davies, Robert Hopkins, Robert Stecker, and David Cooper
    Blackwell. 2009.
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    The Age of German Idealism: Routledge History of Philosophy Volume 6 (edited book)
    with Robert C. Solomon
    Routledge. 2003.
    German Idealism was one of the most fertile and important movements in the history of Western philosophy. This volume includes eleven chapters on all aspects and the period's most influential philosophers, including Kant and Hegel
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    Introducing Philosophy: A Text with Integrated Readings, Tenth Edition is a thorough introduction to the core problems of philosophy, including explanations and background by the authors along with generous excerpts from the philosophers under discussion. Organized topically, the chapters present alternative perspectives-including analytic, continental, feminist, and non-Western viewpoints-alongside the historical works of major philosophers. The text provides the course materials that allow ins…Read more
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    Artistic Visions and the Promise of Beauty: Cross-Cultural Perspectives (edited book)
    with Shakti Maira and Sonia Sikka
    Springer. 2017.
    This volume examines the motives behind rejections of beauty often found within contemporary art practice, where much critically acclaimed art is deliberately ugly and alienating. It reflects on the nature and value of beauty, asking whether beauty still has a future in art and what role it can play in our lives generally. The volume discusses the possible “end of art,” what art is, and the relation between art and beauty beyond their historically Western horizons to include perspectives from As…Read more
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    Beauty and Its Kitsch Competitors
    In Beauty Matters, Indiana University Press. pp. 87-111. 2000.
    One of the reasons for the disappearance of beauty in the artistic ideology of the late twentieth century has been the seeming similarity of beauty to certain kinds of kitsch. Beauty has also been associated with flawlessness and with glamour. I will content that the flawless and the glamorous are actually categories of kitsch, and that the dominance of these images in marketing has contributed to our societal tendency to confuse them with beauty. The quests for flawlessness and glamour are both…Read more
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    The Night Song’s Answer
    International Studies in Philosophy 17 (2): 33-50. 1985.
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    Atomism, Art, and Arthur
    with Robert C. Solomon
    In Ernest Lepore & Mark Rollins (eds.), Danto and his Critics, Wiley‐blackwell. 2012.
    This chapter contains sections titled: Hegel, Hegelianism, and Historicism The Old Chisholm Trail: Historical Facts, Bits of Knowledge Artworks, The Artworld, and The Brillo Box Revolution The End of Art: Not the End at All Individualism Triumphant Danto and Nietzsche: A Hegelian Synthesis.
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    Zarathustra’s Stammer as a Way of Life
    International Studies in Philosophy 20 (2): 117-122. 1988.
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    Nietzsche’s Teaching (review)
    International Studies in Philosophy 22 (3): 124-125. 1990.
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    Nietzsche, The Body and Culture (review)
    International Studies in Philosophy 26 (1): 98-99. 1994.
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    Nietzsche’s View of Philosophical Style: Comments
    International Studies in Philosophy 18 (2): 83-86. 1986.
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    Introduction
    International Studies in Philosophy 28 (3): 1-2. 1996.
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    Introduction
    International Studies in Philosophy 29 (3): 1-2. 1997.
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    Introduction
    International Studies in Philosophy 27 (3): 1-1. 1995.
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    Introduction
    International Studies in Philosophy 25 (2): 1-1. 1993.
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    Introduction
    International Studies in Philosophy 26 (3): 1-2. 1994.
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    Nietzsche's Case: Philosophy as/and Literature
    with Bernd Magnus, Stanley Stewart, and Jean-Pierre Mileur
    Philosophical Review 104 (1): 128. 1995.
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    Music's Role in Relation to Phenomenological Aspects of Grief
    Journal of Consciousness Studies 29 (9-10): 128-149. 2022.
    Music is often utilized in the context of bereavement, yet its role has been underemphasized in the literature on grief. I will suggest that the experience of grief disrupts the bereaved individual's functioning in bodily, orientational, emotional, and interpersonal terms. Music can help assuage the distress of grief in connection with each of these aspects. I will consider some aspects of grief that music is well-suited to address and indicate ways that musical experience can affect them.
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    Music in Confucian and Neo-Confucian Philosophy
    International Philosophical Quarterly 20 (4): 433-451. 1980.
    This article proposes to discuss the role of music within confucian philosophy as a whole and within neo-Confucian philosophy in particular. The discussion includes a consideration of the construction of chinese music; philosophical correlations drawn between musical elements and features of both macrocosm and microcosm; musical aesthetics in the confucian and neo-Confucian philosophical systems; and affinities between the nature of music and the broader outlook of confucian and neo-Confucian ph…Read more
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    Language, Mind and Art: Essays in Appreciation and Analysis in Honor of Paul Ziff
    Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 54 (4): 386-387. 1996.
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    Ironies are implicit in the title of Zoltan Somhegyi’s book Reviewing the Past: The Presence of Ruins, and this is in keeping with ruins’ own paradoxical character as manifesting endurance and fragility, presence and absence, vivid physicality and an import that is almost entirely reflective. By inviting readers to take a desultory approach to the sequence of the book’s chapters, the author positions them to be active co-explorers of ruins who are reflective about their responses. Somhegyi analy…Read more
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    18. Putting the Dead in Their Place
    In Peter D. Hershock & Roger T. Ames (eds.), Philosophies of Place: An Intercultural Conversation, University of Hawaii Press. pp. 318-328. 2019.
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    The Cambridge Companion to Nietzsche
    with Peter Berkowitz and Bernd Magnus
    Philosophical Review 107 (2): 340. 1998.
    This collection of essays fairly exhibits the diversity of opinions about and approaches to the study of Nietzsche within the contemporary academy’s influential and far flung Nietzsche establishment. Notwithstanding the absence of feminist interpretations of Nietzsche and despite the omission of chapters that take seriously Nietzsche’s debt to the ancients, critique of the spirit of democracy, defense of a rank order of desires and souls, recurring articulations of an aristocratic politics, atta…Read more
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    Living with Solomon Living with Nietzsche: A Reply to Tubert and Soll
    Journal of Nietzsche Studies 46 (3): 451-463. 2015.
    ABSTRACT In Living with Nietzsche, Robert C. Solomon defends the view that Nietzsche is an existentialist avant la lettre, a view that I defend. I concur with Ariela Tubert that her case that Nietzsche is a skeptic about metaphysical freedom supports Solomon's position, even if he did not necessarily see Nietzsche as holding a skeptical view. I counter Ivan Soll's arguments against Solomon's view that Nietzsche was mainly interested in promoting the life of passion, which Soll takes as insuffici…Read more
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    Kitsch and Art
    Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 56 (4): 410-412. 1998.
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    9. Moral Equivalents
    In Roger T. Ames Peter D. Hershock (ed.), Value and Values: Economics and Justice in an Age of Global Interdependence, University of Hawaii Press. pp. 185-197. 2015.
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    Monique Roelofs’s The Cultural Promise of the Aesthetic is groundbreaking in its nuanced account of the potential and limitations of the aesthetic for creating a more just, humane world. Particularly timely are Roelofs’s analyses of the ways in which racial and gender stereotypes are reinforced and the operations of what she calls “racialized aesthetic nationalism,” the tendencies of aesthetic values to shore up schisms along racial, ethnic, and national lines. I raise questions, however, about …Read more
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    Confucius’ Opposition to the “New Music”
    Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy 16 (3): 309-323. 2017.
    Confucius condemned Zheng 鄭 and Wei 衛 music, which had widespread popular appeal. He may have expected music to display fundamental patterns in the natural world and thriving human relationships, tasks that could be compromised by irregular and relatively complicated music like that of Zheng and Wei. He was also convinced that Zheng and Wei music would motivate undisciplined behavior in listeners. A third consideration may have been that even if some benefits of participation would derive from m…Read more