Art in Three Dimensions
Noel Carroll
Table of Contents
Introduction
Part I: Art
1. The Descent of Art
2. Formalism
3. Definitions of Art
4. Art, Creativity, and Tradition
Part II: Aesthetic Experience
5. Aesthetic Experience: A Question of Content
6. Nonperceptual Aesthetic Properties
7. Aesthetic Experience, Art, and Artists
Part III: Art and Value
8. Art and Alienation
9. Art and Recollection
10. Art and the Moral Realm
11. The Wheel of Virtue
12. Art and the Ethical Domain
13. Politics and Aesthetics
Part IV: Art and Affect
14. Art and Human Nature
15. Art and Mood
16. On Some Affective Relations between Audiences and Characters in Popular Fictions
Part V: Narrative and Humor
17. Narrative Closure
18. Narrative and the Ethical Life
19. Humor
20. Two Comic Plots
Part VI: The Arts
21. Philosophy and Drama: performance, Interpretation and Intentionality
22. Literary Realism, Recognition, and the Communication of Knowledge
23. Dance, Imitation, and Representation
24. Feeling Movement: Music and Dance
25. Music, Mind, and Morality: Arousing the Body Politic