Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. Acknowledgments xi
4. Editor’s Preface xiii
5. Introduction 1
6. Part One. Art and Morality
7. One. Art and Morality 19
8. Two. Morality Bound and Unbound 27
9. Three. Music, Modulation, and Metaphor 33
10. Four. Performance and Obligation 57
11. Five. A Mozartian Recognition Scene 85
12. Six. A Note on Economy and Art 91
13. Seven. An Aesthetic Glance at the Constitution 97
14. Eight. Human Rights and Artistic Appreciations 107
15. Part Two. Artistic Philosophers and Philosophical Artists
16. Nine. Interpreting Peirce 117
17. Ten. On Ruf’s The Creation of Chaos: William James and the Stylistic Making of a Disorderly World 127
18. Eleven. How Sartre Must Be Read 133
19. Twelve. On Beardsley’s “An Aesthetic Definition of Art” 145
20. Thirteen. Lessing as Philosophical Dramatist 161
21. Fourteen. Lewis Carroll 177
22. Fifteen. Art and Death 191
23. Sixteen. Brancusi 199
24. Part Three. Santayana
25. Seventeen. Drama and Dialectic 211
26. Eighteen. Ontology and Morality 229
27. Nineteen. Spirited Spirituality 239
28. Twenty. Interpreting Interpretations 249
29. Twenty- One. Santayana’s Aesthetics 263
30. Twenty- Two. Santayana’s The Last Puritan 267
31. Twenty- Three. Santayana in California 275
32. Twenty- Four. Ultimate Santayana 281
33. Notes 295
34. Index 313