Art and the Category of Being Aesthetic: A Neo-Wittgensteinian Account

Journal of Value Inquiry

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 59-66

  Irwin, William ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE   (United States)

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EID: 79953654171     PISSN: 00225363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10790-011-9260-6     Document Type: Article

References (20)

1. Noël Carroll, Philosophy of Art: A Contemporary Introduction (London: Routledge, 1999).
2. Morris Weitz, "The Role of Theory in Aesthetics," Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 15 (1956), pp. 27-35.
3. Daniel A. Kaufman, "Family Resemblances, Relationalism, and the Meaning of 'Art'," British Journal of Aesthetics 47 (2007), pp. 280-297
4. Ben Tilghman, "Kaufman on Art, Family Resemblances, and Wittgenstein," British Journal of Aesthetics 48 (2008), pp. 86-88.
5. Berys Gaut, "Art as a Cluster Concept," in Noël Carroll, ed., Theories of Art Today (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2000), pp. 25-44
6. "The Cluster Theory of Art Defended," British Journal of Aesthetics 45 (2005), pp. 273-288
7. Thomas Adajian, "On the Cluster Account of Art," British Journal of Aesthetics 43 (2003), pp. 379-385
8. Denis Dutton, The Art Instinct: Beauty, Pleasure, and Human Evolution (New York: Bloomsbury, 2009), pp. 47-63.
9. Erich Kahler, "What Is Art?" in Morris Weitz, ed., Problems in Aesthetics (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1959), p. 160
10. Maurice Mandelbaum, "Family Resemblances and Generalizations Concerning Arts," American Philosophical Quarterly 2 (1965), pp. 220-221.
11. Mandelbaum, op. cit., pp. 220, 222, 223 n16, and 225.
12. Michael A. Simon, "When is a Resemblance a Family Resemblance?" Mind 78 (1969), p. 415.
13. Jeremy Coote, "'Marvels of Everyday Vision': The Anthropology of Aesthetics and the Cattle-Keeping Nilotes," in Jeremy Coote and Anthony Shelton, eds., Anthropology, Art, and Aesthetics (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992), p. 269.
14. Ibid., p. 250.
15. Ibid., p. 245.
16. Ibid., p. 255.
17. E.D. Hirsch, Jr., "Counterfactuals in Interpretation," in Sanford Levinson and Steven Mailoux, eds., Interpreting Law and Literature: A Hermeneutic Reader (Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press, 1988), pp. 55-68
18. Daniel Dohrn, "Counterfactual Narrative Explanation," The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 67 (2009): 37-47.
19. Dutton, op. cit., pp. 77-79.
20. For helpful comments on earlier versions of this article I am grateful to Thomas Adajian, Dave Baggett, Greg Bassham, Noël Carroll, Jorge Gracia, Jason Holt, Kyle Johnson, Elizabeth Wendolowski, as well as the referees and the Editor-in-Chief, Thomas Magnell, of the Journal of Value Inquiry.