Tag: "aesthetics"

Making Sense of Taste: Food & Philosophy by Carolyn Korsmeyer

Is eating “a small exercise in mortality”? Erin McKenna consumes a tasteful but non-fattening book by Carolyn Korsmeyer.
[Issue 31: March/April 2001: Books]

Time Code

In another intrepid exploration of the possibilities of the silver screen, our very own movie maestro Thomas Wartenberg takes notes on an experimental new film called Time Code.
[Issue 30: December 2000 / January 2001: Films]

Musical Hermeneutics: The ‘Authentic’ Performance of Early Music

What does make a musical performance authentic? What do we mean by authenticity anyway? Michael Graubart looks for some answers.
[Issue 28: August/September 2000: Authenticity]

A Philosophy of Mass Art by Noel Carroll

Bob Sharpe considers art for the masses, the topic of a new book by Noel Carroll.
[Issue 27: June/July 2000: Books]

Arthur Danto

by Rick Lewis
[Issue 27: June/July 2000: The Library of Living Philosophers]

What’s New in… Aesthetics

Kai Hammermeister on the beauty business.
[Issue 24: Summer 1999: Overview]

Søren Kierkegaard

Jeff Mason on Kierkegaard’s three forms of life: the ethical, the aesthetic and the religious.
[Issue 24: Summer 1999: Articles]

The Aesthetics of Music by Roger Scruton

Jane O’Grady describes the musical mysticism of Roger Scruton.
[Issue 21: Summer/Autumn 1998: Books]

Art: Reaching for the Sublime

Peter Benson replies to Colin Radford’s ‘Art: The Demotion Derby’.
[Issue 18: Summer 1997: Articles]

Beauty & Science

Marilyn Kane wonders what scientists mean when they say nature is beautiful.
[Issue 17: Spring 1997: Articles]