Arthur Danto is the Johnsonian Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Columbia University and the most influential philosopher of art in the last half century. As an art critic for The Nation for 25 years and frequent contributor to other widely read outlets such as the New York Review of Books, Danto also has become one of the most respected public intellectuals of his generation. He is the author of some two dozen important books, along with hundreds of articles and reviews which have been the center of both controversy and discussion. In this volume Danto offers his intellectual autobiography and responds to essays by 27 of the keenest critics of his thought from the worlds of philosophy and the arts. The book includes 16 pages of color art reproductions. Danto is the author dozens of books on art, philosophy, the philosophy of art, and art criticism. He is a rare philosopher who is also a public intellectual.
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Weight: 1275g
Dimensions: 152 x 228mm
Publication Date: 05 Dec 2013
Publisher: Cricket Books a division of Carus Publishing Co
Publication City/Country: United States
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780812697322
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Randall E. Auxier is Editor of the Library of Living Philosophers and Professor of Philosophy at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. He is also Editor of the journal The Pluralist. Among the books he has edited are Responses to Royce (2000) Hartshorne and Brightman on God Process and Persons (with Mark Y.A. Davies 2001) and The Philosophy of Richard Rorty (with Lewis Edwin Hahn 2009). The late Lewis Edwin Hahn was editor of the Library of Living Philosophers from 1981 to 2001. As Paul Schilpp's successor he edited three LLP volumes with Schilpp and and eight volumes as sole editor then conceived planned and began the creation of seven more volumes. He authored A Contextualistic Theory of Perception (1942) Value: A Co-operative Inquiry (with John Dewey and others 1949) and A Contextualistic World View (2001). Professor Hahn co-edited The Early Works of John Dewey 1882-1898 (1967-1972) and wrote numerous articles for scholarly journals and collections.