Jerrold Levinson

Biographic Data

ID3698093
NAMEJerrold Levinson
GIVEN NAMESJerrold
FAMILY NAMELevinson
SIGNATURELEVINSON J
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Maryland, College Park
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS38
TOTAL CITATIONS81
AUTHOR COUNT31
EDITOR COUNT7
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1978
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX5

  • Fiction versus Pretence

    Open AccessJerrold LevinsonARTICLEThe British Journal of Aesthetics2024

    This paper argues for a distinction between pretending and imagining. Pretending has a public and observable aspect, which imagining does not. The paper then uses this distinction to argue that various forms of fiction, including literature and the theater, do not essentially involve pretence

  • Oxford Handbook of Western Music and Philosophy

    Ariana Phillips-Hutton, Jerrold Levinson et al.BOOKOxford Handbook of Western Music…2021

  • The Oxford Handbook of Western Music and Philosophy

    Tomás ca /21 Jh McAuley, Nanette ca /21 Jh Nielsen et al.BOOKOxford Handbook of Western Music…2020

    This Handbook offers an overview of the thriving interdisciplinary field of Western music and philosophy. It seeks to represent this area in all its fullness, including a diverse array of perspectives from music studies (notably historical musicology, music theory, and ethnomusicology), philosophy (incorporating both analytic and continental approaches), and a range of cognate disciplines (such as critical theory and intellectual history). The Ha…

  • Peter Kivy and the Philosophy of Music (1980–2002)

    Jerrold LevinsonARTICLEThe British Journal of Aesthetics2017

    In the beginning—or more exactly, the seventies, when I was in graduate school at the University of Michigan—was the void, and darkness was upon the face of the waters. Philosophical reflection on the experience, meaning, and powers of music by analytic philosophers was almost non-existent. And then, as the 1980s dawned, came Peter Kivy. Suddenly there was light, and analytic philosophy of music was born. In this piece I summarize the substance o…

  • Film, Art, and the Third Culture

    Open AccessJerrold LevinsonARTICLEThe British Journal of Aesthetics2017

    I am full of admiration for Murray Smith’s Film, Art, and the Third Culture. For one, it is among the most enjoyable reads I have ever had from a book in aesthetics. For another, it manifests more breadth of mind and a wider philosophical scope than most books in aesthetics, including my own, which usually confine themselves to narrower debates internal to that academic domain. And for a third, it contains a host of analyses of individual cinemat…

  • Suffering Art Gladly

    Open AccessJerrold LevinsonBOOKSuffering Art Gladly2014

    A collection of newly composed essays, some with a historical focus and some with a contemporary focus, which addresses the problem of explaining the appeal of artworks whose appreciation entails nega

  • Suffering Art Gladly: The Paradox of Negative Emotion in Art

    Jerrold LevinsonBOOKSuffering Art Gladly2013

  • Art and pornography: Philosophical Essays

    Hans Maes, Jerrold LevinsonBOOKArt and pornography2012

    This book presents a series of essays which investigate the artistic status and aesthetic dimension of pornographic pictures, films, and literature, and explores the distinction, if there is any, between pornography and erotic art. Is there any overlap between art and pornography, or are the two mutually exclusive? If they are, why is that? If they are not, how might we characterize pornographic art or artistic pornography, and how might pornogra…

  • Defending Hypothetical Intentionalism

    Jerrold LevinsonARTICLEThe British Journal of Aesthetics2010Cited by: 7

    Journal Article Defending Hypothetical Intentionalism Get access Jerrold Levinson Jerrold Levinson University of Maryland Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Aesthetics, Volume 50, Issue 2, April 2010, Pages 139–150, https://doi.org/10.1093/aesthj/ayp072 Published: 01 April 2010

  • The Oxford Handbook of Aesthetics

    Jerrold LevinsonBOOKThe Oxford Handbook of Aesthetics2009

    The Oxford Handbook of Aesthetics looks at a fascinating theme in philosophy and the arts. Leading figures in the field contribute forty-eight articles which detail the theory, application, history, and future of philosophy and all branches of the arts. The first article of the book gives a general overview of the field of philosophical aesthetics in two parts: the first is a quick sketch of the lay of the land, and the second an account of five …

  • Art and Politics

    Lydia Goehr, Jerrold LevinsonBOOKThe Oxford Handbook of Aesthetics2009

    This article focuses on one issue in the wide-ranging, contemporary debates on the relation between art and politics, namely, philosophy's role in these debates and the contribution it makes. In the background, this survey acknowledges that philosophy may provide useful conceptual clarification regarding the many ways the arts engage in and with the political sphere, for example in the production of propaganda art and the uses of images in mass m…

  • Art and Knowledge

    Berys Gaut, Jerrold LevinsonBOOKThe Oxford Handbook of Aesthetics2009

    The question of whether art gives us knowledge is as old as the philosophy of art itself: Plato in The Republic argued that, although poetry purports to give knowledge, it in fact does no such thing, but produces a mere deceptive appearance of knowledge. In contrast, Aristotle in The Poetics argued for the capacity of poetry to give its audience knowledge of universals. The dispute has reverberated down to the modern period, and a large part of t…

  • Contemplating Art: Essays in Aesthetics

    Jerrold LevinsonBOOKContemplating Art2006

    This book is a compendium of writings from the last ten years by one of the leading figures in aesthetics, Jerrold Levinson. It contains twenty-four essays and is divided into seven parts. The first is about issues relating to art in general, not specific to one art form. The second is about philosophical problems specific to music. The third part focuses on pictorial art, and the fourth on interpretation, in particular, the interpretation of lit…

  • Two Notions of Interpretation

    Jerrold LevinsonCHAPTERContemplating Art2006

    This essay brings into relief a distinction among semantic interpretations or among activities of semantic interpreting, which cuts across verbal and non-verbal phenomena. The distinction is between interpretations that aim to answer the question ‘Whatdoessuch and such mean?’ and those that aim to answer the question ‘Whatcouldsuch and such mean?’, the former exemplifying thedeterminativemode and the latter theexploratorymode of interpreting. The…

  • Contemplating Art

    Jerrold LevinsonBOOKContemplating Art2006

  • The Irreducible Historicality of the Concept of Art

    Jerrold LevinsonARTICLEThe British Journal of Aesthetics2002Cited by: 9

    Journal Article The Irreducible Historicality of the Concept of Art Get access Jerrold Levinson Jerrold Levinson Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Aesthetics, Volume 42, Issue 4, October 2002, Pages 367–379, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjaesthetics/42.4.367 Published: 01 October 2002

  • Aesthetics and Ethics: Essays at the Intersection (Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and the Arts)

    Jerrold LevinsonBOOKAesthetics and Ethics2001

  • Musical Frissons

    Jerrold LevinsonARTICLERevue française d’études…2000Cited by: 1

    Après avoir distingué divers types de plaisir musical, cet article s'intéresse à ce type de plaisir qui, à l'écoute de certaines musiques dans certaines circonstances, s'accompagne de véritables «frissons. » À partir de la critique d'une étude empirique du psychologue Jaak Panksepp, il s'agit de comprendre en quoi ce type de réaction, à première vue purement physiologique, peut en fait manifester une réaction appropriée à la musique et avoir une …

  • Music in the Moment

    Gary Iseminger, Jerrold LevinsonARTICLEThe Philosophical Review2000

  • The Aesthetics of Music

    Jerrold Levinson, Roger ScrutonARTICLEThe Philosophical Review2000

  • The Aesthetics of Music

    Jerrold LevinsonARTICLEThe Philosophical Review2000

    Book Review| October 01 2000 The Aesthetics of Music THE AESTHETICS OF MUSIC. By Roger Scruton. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997. Pp. xx, 530. Jerrold Levinson Jerrold Levinson Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Philosophical Review (2000) 109 (4): 608–614. https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-109-4-608 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Faceb…

  • Aesthetics and Ethics: Essays at the Intersection

    Open AccessJerrold LevinsonBOOKAesthetics and Ethics1998

    This major collection of essays stands at the border of aesthetics and ethics and deals with charged issues of practical import: art and morality, the ethics of taste, and censorship. As such its potential interest is by no means confined to professional philosophers; it should also appeal to art historians and critics, literary theorists, and students of film. Prominent philosophers in both aesthetics and ethics tackle a wide array of issues. So…

  • Truth, Fiction, and Literature: A Philosophical Perspective

    Jerrold Levinson, Peter Lamarque et al.ARTICLEPhilosophy and Phenomenological…1997

  • The Mind and its Depths

    Jerrold Levinson, Richard WollheimARTICLEThe Philosophical Quarterly1995

    Journal Article Book Reviews Get access The Mind and its Depths. By Richard Wollheim. ( Harvard UP, 1993. Pp. x + 214. Price £19.95.) Jerrold Levinson Jerrold Levinson University of Maryland Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 45, Issue 178, January 1995, Pages 100–103, https://doi.org/10.2307/2219854 Published: 01 January 1995

  • Recent Books in the Philopshy of Music

    Roger Scruton, Peter Kivy et al.ARTICLEThe Philosophical Quarterly1994