A Companion to Arthur C. Danto. Группа авторов

to the belief that he had never had the same thought twice. A voracious reader of fiction, he showed how even a rigorous and perspicuous philosophical exposition can possess the style of a literary art. His most influential writings bear the impress of profound changes between the 1960s and the 1990s in art practice, the market, museums, audiences of art, and the role of critics and connoisseurs as guides and gatekeepers. But this body of work also responded to tumultuous changes in society at large in those decades, as we see in his reflections on human and civil rights, public values, dreams of democracy, racism, feminism, and censorship. Many of the essays here offer thoughtful commentaries on these more political and social issues. Danto’s engagement with living artists of his own day allowed him to breathe in the atmosphere to which he appealed as defining what art essentially is. He belonged very much to his century, in ways—following his philosophy of history—that time continues to tell.

Notes on Contributors

      Tiziana Andina is Professor of Philosophy at University of Turin, and author of Arthur Danto: Philosopher of Pop.

      Frank Ankersmit is Emeritus Professor for Philosophy of History and Intellectual History at Groningen University. He writes on representation in the writing of history and in political and aesthetic representation.

      Sondra Bacharach is an Associate Professor and Head of Programme in Philosophy at the Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand. Recent research about street art has appeared in the British Journal of Aesthetics and The Monist.

      Georg W. Bertram is Professor of Philosophy at the Freie Universität Berlin, and author of Hegels “Phänomenologie des Geistes.” Ein systematischer Kommentar and Art as Human Practice. An Aesthetics.

      J. M. Bernstein is University Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research. Among his books are: The Fate of Art: Aesthetic Alienation from Kant to Derrida and Adorno, Adorno: Disenchantment and Ethics, Against Voluptuous Bodies: Late Modernism and the Meaning of Painting, Torture and Dignity: An Essay on Moral Injury.

      Peg Brand Weiser is Laureate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Arizona and Emerita Associate Professor of Philosophy and Women’s Studies at Indiana University. Editor of Beauty Matters and Beauty Unlimited, her most recent work focuses on the perception of athletes’ bodies and female agency.

      Kyle Bukhari is a dance researcher, educator, and performer, and visiting faculty at Sarah Lawrence College.

      Remei Capdevila-Werning, Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, is author of Goodman for Architects and several essays in the philosophy of architecture, aesthetics, and preservation.

      Taylor Carman is Professor of Philosophy at Barnard College, and author of Heidegger’s Analytic and Merleau-Ponty; and coeditor of The Cambridge Companion to Merleau-Ponty.

      Matilde Carrasco Barranco is Associate Professor of Aesthetics and Theory of Arts in the University of Murcia (Spain). She works on the relation between aesthetics, and beauty, and contemporary art theory.

David Carrier taught philosophy in Pittsburgh and art history in Cleveland. He writes art criticism for Brooklyn Rail and Hyperallergic.

      Noël Carroll teaches philosophy at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and is the author most recently of Humour: A Very Short Introduction and Classics in the Western Philosophy of Art.

      Sixto J. Castro, Professor of Aesthetics at the University of Valladolid, is author of En teoría, es arte, Filosofía del arte: El arte pensado, and Teología estética.

      Ginger Danto, the youngest daughter of Arthur, is a writer and lives in North Florida.

      David Davies is Professor of Philosophy at McGill University. His books include Art as Performance; Aesthetics and Literature and Philosophy of the Performing Arts.

      Whitney Davis is George and Helen Pardee Professor of History and Theory of Ancient and Modern Art at the University of California at Berkeley. His trilogy on visual culture is A General Theory of Visual Culture, Visuality and Virtuality: Images and Pictures from Prehistory to Perspective, and Space, Time, and Depiction.

      Marlies De Munck, philosopher and journalist, teaches at the University of Antwerp and the Royal Conservatory in Ghent. Her recent publications include: Why Chopin didn’t want to hear the rain; The Flight of the Nightingale: A Philosophical Plea for the Musician; Nearness: Art and Education after COVID-19; and I See Mountains as Mountains, once again.

      Rachel Eisendrath, author of Poetry in a World of Things: Aesthetics and Empiricism in Renaissance Ekphrasis and Gallery of Clouds, is Tow Associate Professor of English and chair of the Medieval and Renaissance Studies Program at Barnard College.

      Richard Eldridge, Charles and Harriett Cox McDowell Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Swarthmore College, lectures now at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. His most recent books are Werner Herzog: Filmmaker and Philosopher and Images of History: Kant, Benjamin, Freedom, and the Human Subject.

      Arturo Fontaine is a Chilean novelist and professor of philosophy at University Adolfo Ibáñez and University of Chile. His latest novel is La Vida Doble: A Novel.

      Jane Forsey teaches philosophy at the University of Winnipeg, Canada. She is the author of The Aesthetics of Design and coeditor (with Lars Aagaard-Mogensen) of two volumes of essays, On Taste and On the Ugly: Aesthetic Exchanges.

      Michalle Gal is a senior faculty member in the Unit of History and Philosophy, Shenkar College. Her recent books are Visual Metaphors and Aesthetics: A Formalist Theory and Introduction to Theory of Design.

      Jonathan Gilmore is Associate Professor of Philosophy at The CUNY Graduate Center and Baruch College. His most recent book is Apt Imaginings: Feelings for Fictions and Other Creatures of the Mind.

      Lydia Goehr is Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University. Her most recent book, dedicated to Arthur Danto, is Red Sea–Red Square–Red Thread: A Philosophical Detective Story.

      Robert Gooding-Williams is the M. Moran Weston/Black Alumni Council Professor of African-American Studies and Professor of Philosophy and of African American and African Diaspora Studies at Columbia University. He is the author of Zarathustra’s Dionysian Modernism, Look, A Negro!: Philosophical Essays on Race, Culture, and Politics and In the Shadow of Du Bois: Afro-Modern Political Thought in America.

      Adrian Haddock is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Stirling, following an Alexander von Humboldt Experienced Research Fellowship at the University of Leipzig. His most recent publication is “The Wonder of Signs,” in Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society.

      Garry Hagberg is the James H. Ottaway Professor of Philosophy and Aesthetics at Bard College. His most recent book is Living in Words: Literature, Autobiographical Language, and the Composition of Selfhood.

      Espen Hammer is Professor of Philosophy at Temple University. His most recent book is Adorno’s Modernism: Art, Experience, and Catastrophe.

      Casey Haskins is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Purchase College, State University of New York. His current book project is on the history of the debate over autonomy in modern aesthetic theory.

      Daniel Herwitz is Fredric Huetwell Professor at the University of Michigan. He has written widely in aesthetics, culture and politics, including