The Philosophy of Art

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Drawing on the philosophies of art developed by the continental authors and studies of Anglo-American philosophers, this book presents a panorama of the philosophy of art. It discusses definitions offered from the analytical school including Arthur Danto�s representationalism, Dipert�s theories of artefactualism, Dickie�s institutional and procedural theories and Levinson�s historical and cultural theories. From the continental theories it reflects on Hegel�s notion of philosophy of art, Martin Heidegger�s and Hans Georg Gadamer�s hermeneutic tradition and Alexius Meinong�s theory of objects.

This range of definitions and theories are judged and defended using a form of representationalism that begins with the results of Arthur Danto�s thinking and integrates the aesthetic reflection of the Baumgarten School. The result is not only a presentation of philosophy of art from the beginning of the twentieth century to present day, but a study that proposes a theory capable of synthesizing the finest contributions of the analytic and continental traditions.