Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. Preface xi
4. Introduction 1
5. Part I: Logics of Criticism
6. 1. On Analytic Aesthetics: From Empiricism to Metaphysics 15
7. 2. Logics of Interpretation: The Persistence of Pluralism 34
8. 3. Croce on Interpretation: Deconstruction and Pragmatism 53
9. 4. Wittgenstein and Critical Reasoning 72
10. Part II: Logics of Culture
11. 5. Of the Scandal of Taste: Social Privilege as Nature in the Aesthetics of Hume and Kant 91
12. 6. Convention: Variations on the Nature/Culture Theme 108
13. 7. From Natural Roots to Cultural Radicalism: Pragmatist Aesthetics in Alain Locke and John Dewey 123
14. 8. Eliot and Adorno on the Critique of Culture 139
15. 9. Deep Theory and Surface Blindness: On the Aesthetic Visibility of Print 159
16. Part III: Contemporary Reconstructions
17. 10. Art in a Box: Danto 175
18. 11. Pragmatism and Culture: Margolis and Rorty 191
19. 12. Cultural Analysis and the Limits of Philosophy: The Case of Bourdieu 208
20. 13. Art as Dramatization 226
21. Notes 239
22. Index 275