Danto and His Critics

Acknowledgments xi

Selected Bibliography of the Works of Arthur Danto xiii

Introduction 1
Mark Rollins

Part I System and Method 13

1 Danto as Systematic Philosopher, or Comme on lit Danto en francais 15
David Carrier

2 Danto's Gallery of Indiscernibles 30
Richard Wollheim

Part II Intention and Interpretation 41

3 The Invisible Content of Visual Art 43
Mark Rollins

4 Deja vu All Over Again: How Danto's Aesthetics Recapitulates the Philosophy of Mind 55
Jerry A. Fodor

5 Surface and Deep Interpretation 69
Peg Brand and Myles Brand

6 "Other Pictures We Look at, ? His Prints We Read": Danto Reading Lamb Reading Hogarth on the Art of the Commonplace 84
Lydia Goehr

Part III Philosophy of Art 109

7 A Tale of Two Artworlds 111
Postscript
George Dickie

8 Essence, Expression, and History: Arthur Danto?s Philosophy of Art 118
Noel Carroll

9 Danto's New Definition of Art and the Problem of Art Theories 146
Noel Carroll

10 Danto and Kant: Together at Last? 153
Diarmuid Costello

11 Atomism, Art, and Arthur: Danto's Hegelian Turn 172
Robert C. Solomon and Kathleen M. Higgins

Postscript
Kathleen M. Higgins

Part IV Historical Knowledge 197

12 Art and Its Doubles: Danto, Foucault, and Their Simulacra Postscript 199
Gary Shapiro

13 The Beginning of the End: Danto on Postmodernism 215
Daniel Herwitz

14 Danto's Aesthetic: Is It Truly General As He Claims? 232
David Carrier

Part V What Philosophy Is 249

15 Art as Religion: Transfigurations of Danto's Dao 251
Richard Shusterman

16 Looking Beyond the Visible: The Case of Arthur Dantwo 267
Carlin Romano

Part VI Responses 283

17 Replies to Essays 285
Arthur C. Danto

Afterword: Not by a Soap Box but First by a Kiss 313
Arthur C. Danto

Index 317