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3Black art and aesthetics: relationalities, interiorities, reckonings (edited book)Bloomsbury Academic. 2023.Black Art and Aesthetics comprises essays, poems, interviews, and over 50 images from artists and writers: GerShun Avilez, Angela Y. Davis, Thomas F. DeFrantz, Theaster Gates, Aracelis Girmay, Jeremy Matthew Glick, Deborah Goffe, James B. Haile III, Vijay Iyer, Isaac Julien, Benjamin Krusling, Daphne Lamothe, George E. Lewis, Sarah Elizabeth Lewis, Meleko Mokgosi, Wangechi Mutu, Fumi Okiji, Nell Painter, Mickaella Perina, Kevin Quashie, Claudia Rankine, Claudia Schmuckli, Evie Shockley, Paul C. …Read more
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9A phenomenological analysis of envyRoutledge. 2024.This book provides a phenomenological analysis of envy. The author's account takes a descriptive look at the whole experience of envy as it pertains to the envier's sense of self and the envied. Philosophical work on envy has predominately focused on how the envier perceives, thinks about, or schemes against the person envied. This book proposes a phenomenological analysis of envy that articulates its essentially comparative character according to which we can further incorporate the role of the…Read more
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93On the Mind’s Pronouncement of TimeProceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 78 247-262. 2004.This essay contests the standard historical comparison that links Husserl’s account of time-consciousness to the tradition by way of Book XI of Augustine’sConfessions. This comparison rests on the mistaken assumption that both thinkers attribute the soul’s distention and corresponding apprehension of time to memory. While true for Augustine and Husserl’s 1905 lectures on time, Husserl concluded after 1907 that these lectures advanced the flawed and counter-intuitive position that memory extends …Read more
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65On the Mind’s Pronouncement of TimeProceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 78 247-262. 2004.This essay contests the standard historical comparison that links Husserl’s account of time-consciousness to the tradition by way of Book XI of Augustine’sConfessions. This comparison rests on the mistaken assumption that both thinkers attribute the soul’s distention and corresponding apprehension of time to memory. While true for Augustine and Husserl’s 1905 lectures on time, Husserl concluded after 1907 that these lectures advanced the flawed and counter-intuitive position that memory extends …Read more
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35A Philosophy of Mass Art (review)Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 61 (2): 481-485. 2000.Noel Carroll’s A Philosophy of Mass Art is intended as a contribution to a “systematic” philosophy of mass art, but his more immediate aim is to clarify and criticize the principles and presuppositions that contemporary theorists bring—mistakenly, he argues—to their reflections on mass art. In a sense, Carroll offers to provide for the philosophy of mass art what he claims mass art can provide for morality, namely, clarificationism : “Logical argumentation and conceptual clarification are its ma…Read more
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3Foucault on Critical Agency in Painting and the Aesthetics of ExistenceIn Christopher Falzon, Timothy O'Leary & Jana Sawicki (eds.), A Companion to Foucault, Wiley. 2013.In this chapter, the author aims to make a case that Foucault does indeed have a viable conception of critical agency. The issue of critical agency emerges implicitly and explicitly throughout Foucault's work, but appears consistently. The key capacities of critical agency are present all along in Foucault's discussions of painting and, moreover, they culminate in the aesthetics of existence. The kind of critical agency evident in Foucault's discussions of various painters from the Renaissance t…Read more
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2Achievement of Stated Goals; Cultural and Philosophical MissionsEncyclopedia of AestheticsJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 58 (3): 291. 2000.
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524A Phenomenological (Husserlian) Defense of Bergson’s “Idealistic Concession”Epoché: A Journal for the History of Philosophy 14 (2): 399-415. 2010.When summarizing the findings of his 1896 Matter and Memory, Bergson claims: “That every reality has... a relation with consciousness—this is what we concede to idealism.” Yet Bergson’s 1896 text presents the theory of “pure perception,” which, since it accounts for perception according to the brain’s mechanical transmissions, apparently leaves no room for subjective consciousness. Bergson’s theory of pure perception would appear to render his idealistic concession absurd. In this paper, I attem…Read more
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20Historical and Art-Historical CoverageEncyclopedia of AestheticsJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 58 (3): 295. 2000.
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6Daniel T. O'Hara, Radical Parody: American Culture and Critical Agency After FoucaultJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 52 (2): 259-260. 1994.
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19Review of Albrecht Wellmer: The Persistence of Modernity: Essays on Aesthetics, Ethic, and Postmodernism (review)Ethics 103 (3): 581-584. 1993.
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89The gadamer/habermas debate revisited: The question of ethicsPhilosophy and Social Criticism 14 (3-4): 369-389. 1988.
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29Encyclopedia of Aesthetics (2 ed.) (edited book)Oxford University Press. 1998.A four-volume reference work that surveys how philosophers, art historians, and others reflect critically on art and culture. The first comprehensive reference work on aesthetics that presents articles on the history of Western and non-Western aesthetics along with extensive accounts of the contemporary debates.
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137Encyclopedia of aesthetics (edited book)Oxford University Press. 1998.Are things ugly or are they just not beautiful? The answer to this and many other questions can be found in this encyclopedia, the first large-scale comprehensive English-language reference on aesthetics and destined to be a classic in the field. Drawing from experts in the areas of philosophy, art, history, psychology, feminist theory, legal theory, and many more, the encyclopedia presents 600 signed essays alphabetically arranged. Most entries include a headnote clarifying the topic. Entries r…Read more
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12The Encyclopedia as a Learning ToolEncyclopedia of AestheticsJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 58 (3): 298. 2000.
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1MacIntyre, Habermas, and Philosophical Ethics in Hermeneutics in Ethics and Social TheoryPhilosophical Forum 21 (1-2): 70-93. 1989.
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30"Examine[s] the history of Marxist philosophical issues in particular, dialectical materialism as developed by French Communist Party intellectuals... Remarkably clear, deeply researched, and well-written."- Political Science Quarterly
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44Hermeneutics and science: Why hermeneutics is not antiscienceSouthern Journal of Philosophy 25 (4): 481-500. 1987.
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95Public art controversy: The Serra and Lin casesJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 54 (1): 15-22. 1996.
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43Michael Kelly is the author of 68 entries altogether. The New Oxford Companion to Literature in French is far more than a simple revision of the original Oxford Companion to French Literature, published in 1959, and described by The Listener as the `standard work of reference for English-speaking enquirers into French literature'. As the change in title implies, this completely new work presents an authoritative guide not only to ten centuries of literature produced in the territory now called F…Read more
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