{"product_id":"meaning-in-the-arts-volume-xxvii-isbn-9781405108911","title":"Meaning In The Arts, Volume XXVII","description":"This Volume illuminates the notion of meaning in the arts-in literature, painting, music, and dance. Specific topics include theory in the arts; interpretations of meaning; objectivity in meaning; and the consumer as a participant in art.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cul class=\"noindent\"\u003e \u003cli\u003eBrings together articles from prominent philosophers and practitioners of the arts, which illuminate the notion of meaning in the arts.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eAddresses meaning in literature, painting, music, and dance.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eExplores the relationship between authorial intentions and the viewer's interpretation of meaning; the possibility (or impossibility) of objective meaning; and the role of the consumer as a participant in the work of art.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e  1. Ode to Meaning: Robert Pinsky (Boston University). \u003cp\u003e2. Resurrecting the Author: Nicholas Wolterstorff (Yale University)\u003cb\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. Meaning in the Work of Art: A Hermeneutic Perspective: Charles Guignon (University of South Florida).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. Words for the Wordless: D.Z. Philips (Claremont Graduate University).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. Musical Thinking: Jerrold Levinson (University of Maryland).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. Is Twelve-Tone Music Artistically Defective?: Diana Raffman (Ohio State University).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7. Self-Mutilation, Interpretation, and Controversial Art: Jill Sigman (Artistic Director, jillsigman\/thinkdance, New York City).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8. Time in Movies: Gideon Yaffe (University of Southern California).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9. Philosophy Screened: Experiencing \u003ci\u003eThe Matrix\u003c\/i\u003e: Tom Wartenberg (Mount Holyoke College).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10. The Self-Disarmament of God As Evolutionary Pre-Adaption: Jack Miles (Getty Research Institute).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMidwest Studies in Philosophy 1976-2005\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eContributors\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cb\u003ePeter A. French\u003c\/b\u003e is the Lincoln Chair in Ethics and the Director of the Lincoln Center for Applied Ethics at Arizona State University. Formerly, he held the Cole Chair In Ethics at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas, and served as Exxon Distinguished Research Professor in the Center for the Study of Values at the University of Delaware. He is the author of seventeen books including \u003ci\u003eCowboy Metaphysics: Ethics and Death in Westerns\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eCorporate Ethics\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eResponsibility Matters\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eCorporations in the Moral Community\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eThe Spectrum of Responsibility\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eCollective and Corporate Responsibility\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eCorrigible Corporations and Unruly Laws\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eEthics in Government\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eThe Scope of Morality\u003c\/i\u003e. His most recent book, \u003ci\u003eThe Virtues of Vengeance\u003c\/i\u003e, was published in April 2001. He has published dozens of articles in the major philosophical and legal journals and reviews, many of which have been anthologized. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHoward K. Wettstein\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Riverside. He has taught at the University of Notre Dame and the University of Minnesota-Morris, and has served as visiting professor at the University of Iowa and Stanford University. Wettstein has published articles on the philosophy of language and the philosophy of religion and is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Magic Prism: An Essay in the Philosophy of Language\u003c\/i\u003e (forthcoming, Oxford University Press), and \u003ci\u003eHas Semantics Rested on a Mistake? And other Essays\u003c\/i\u003e (1992, Stanford Press).\u003c\/p\u003e  This collection of articles from prominent philosophers and practitioners of the arts illuminates the notion of meaning in the arts - in literature, painting, music, and dance. 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