Music, Art, and Metaphysics

This is a long-awaited reissue of Jerrold Levinson''s 1990 book Music, Art, and Metaphysics, which gathers together the writings that made him a leading figure in contemporary aesthetics. Most of the essays are distinguished by a concern with metaphysical questions about artworks and their properties, but other essays address the problem of art''s definition, the psychology of aesthetic response, ...