Art and Representation : Contributions to Contemporary Aesthetics.

Cover -- ART AND REPRESENTATION -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- V -- VI -- NOTES -- PART ONE Concepts and Faculties -- 1 Representation in Language -- PICTORIAL, PRESENTATIONAL, AND REPRESENTATIONAL FORM -- OLD AND NEW WAYS OF IDEAS -- ANOTHER IDEA OF IDEA -- FORMS OF LIFE -- WORLD PICTURES -- LANGUAGE AND THE VERY IDEA OF A CONCEPTUAL SCHEME -- SENDING ON REPRESENTATION -- NOTES -- 2 Representation and Epistemology -- THE PERFORMING ARTS -- NOTES -- 3 Political and Historical Representation -- INTRODUCTION -- REPRESENTATION -- IMPLICATIONS OF THE FOREGOING -- FOUR CONSEQUENCES -- FROM REPRESENTATIVE TO PLEBISCITARY DEMOCRACY -- WHERE TO FIND THE REMEDY FOR OUR PRESENT POLITICAL ILLS? -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- 4 Representation in Sacrificial Rites -- RELIGION, RITUAL, AND SACRIFICE -- THE STRUCTURALISTS -- THE PERSISTENCE OF RELIGION -- RECAPTURING THE RELIGIOUS CONTEXT OF DURKHEIMIAN THOUGHT -- SACRIFICIAL RHETORIC -- WHAT KIND OF THEORY? -- PERSISTENCE OF SACRIFICIAL RHETORIC -- NOTES -- 5 Possible World and Representation -- POSSIBLE WORLDS AND MODALITY -- POSSIBLE AND IMPOSSIBLE WORLDS -- MODAL REALISM AND CONCRETE WORLDS -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- 6 Postmodernism and Representation -- POST-METAPHYSICAL REPRESENTATION: THE LOST GROUND OF CRITIQUE? -- DERRIDA DECONSTRUCTING THE CENTER -- From Logocentric to Postmodern Linguistics -- An Epochal Genealogy of Writing -- Semiotic Production -- The Conditions of Hermeneutic Suspicion -- RORTY'S ANTI-FOUNDATIONAL SKEPTICISM -- Beyond Truth and the Good -- Rorty's Epistemic Agenda -- Representation without Essences -- FOUCAULT'S POWERS OF DISCOURSE -- The Pragmatic Conditions of History -- The Constitution of Objects -- The Problem of Postfoundational Critique -- THE NECESSARY CONDITIONS OF CRITIQUE -- ADORNO'S CRITICAL REPRESENTATIONS.

Foundations without a Method -- Formal Necessity as Foundational Contradiction -- RECONSTRUCTING THE FOUNDATIONS OF REPRESENTATION AND CRITIQUE -- NOTE -- REFERENCES -- PART TWO Aesthetics and Arts -- 7 Some Current Philosophical Theories of Pictorial Representation -- NOTES -- 8 A Causal Theory of Pictorial Representation -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- V -- ACKNOWLEDGMENT -- NOTES -- 9 Painting, Photography, and Representation -- MATCHING -- SIMULATION -- THE INTENTIONALITY OF PICTURES -- REPRESENTATION, PAINTING, AND PHOTOGRAPHY -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- 10 Representation in Literatur -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- NOTES -- 11 Musical Representation -- THE MUSICAL REPRESENTATION OF SOUNDS -- MUSIC AND DYNAMIC PROCESSES -- DRAMATIC MUSIC AND SONGS -- THE REPRESENTATION OF EMOTIONS IN MUSIC -- ABSTRACT INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC -- MUSIC WITH DESCRIPTIVE TITLES AND PROGRAMS -- REPRESENTATIONS OF MUSIC WITHIN MUSIC -- CONCLUSION -- NOTE -- 12 Representation in Dance: Reference and Resemblance -- REFERENCE -- REPRESENTATION -- REPRESENTATION AND EXPRESSION -- NOTES -- 13 Film and Representation -- TRANSPARENT REALISM -- REPRESENTATIONALISM -- THE LOGIC OF SEEING -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- 14 Representation in Painting and Drama: Arguments from Indian Aesthetics -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION -- REPRESENTATION AS ILLUSION -- REPRESENTATION AS ARTIFICIAL REPRODUCTION/REPLICA/RE-PRESENTATION -- REPRESENTATION AS PERFORMANCE/DETERMINATE PRESENTATION OF THE INDETERMINATE/ILLUSTRATIVE TOKEN OF TYPE -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- 15 Representation, Representativeness, and Non-Representational Art -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- V -- VI -- VII -- NOTES -- Selected Bibliography -- Author/Name Index -- Term/Concept Index -- About the Editor and Contributors.

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