Updated and revised, the Second Edition of Danto and His Critics presents a series of essays by leading Danto scholars who offer their critical assessment of the influential works and ideas of Arthur C. Danto, the Johnsonian Professor Emeritus in the Department of Philosophy at Columbia University and long-time art critic for The Nation. Reflects Danto's revisions in his theory of art, reworking his views in ways that have not been systematically addressed elsewhere Features essays that critically assess the changes in Danto's thoughts and locate Danto's revised theory in the larger context of his work and of aesthetics generally Speaks in original ways to the relation of Danto's philosophy of art to his theory of mind Connects and integrates Danto's ideas on the nature of knowledge, action, aesthetics, history, and mind, as well as his provocative thoughts on the philosophy of art for the reader

Updated and revised, the Second Edition of Danto and HisCritics presents a series of essays by leading Danto scholarswho offer their critical assessment of the influential works andideas of Arthur C. Danto, the Johnsonian Professor Emeritus in theDepartment of Philosophy at Columbia University and long-time artcritic for The Nation.* Reflects Danto's revisions in his theory of art, reworking hisviews in ways that have not been systematically addressedelsewhere* Features essays that critically assess the changes in Danto'sthoughts and locate Danto's revised theory in the larger context ofhis work and of aesthetics generally* Speaks in original ways to the relation of Danto's philosophyof art to his theory of mind* Connects and integrates Danto's ideas on the nature ofknowledge, action, aesthetics, history, and mind, as well as hisprovocative thoughts on the philosophy of art for the reader

Notes on Contributors ixAcknowledgments xiSelected Bibliography of the Works of Arthur Danto xiiiIntroduction 1Mark RollinsPart I System and Method 131 Danto as Systematic Philosopher, or Comme on lit Danto enfrancais 15David Carrier2 Danto's Gallery of Indiscernibles 30Richard WollheimPart II Intention and Interpretation 413 The Invisible Content of Visual Art 43Mark Rollins4 Deja vu All Over Again: How Danto's Aesthetics Recapitulatesthe Philosophy of Mind 55Jerry A. Fodor5 Surface and Deep Interpretation 69Peg Brand and Myles Brand6 "Other Pictures We Look at, - His Prints We Read": DantoReading Lamb Reading Hogarth on the Art of the Commonplace 84Lydia GoehrPart III Philosophy of Art 1097 A Tale of Two Artworlds 111PostscriptGeorge Dickie8 Essence, Expression, and History: Arthur Danto'sPhilosophy of Art 118Noel Carroll9 Danto's New Definition of Art and the Problem of Art Theories146Noel Carroll10 Danto and Kant: Together at Last? 153Diarmuid Costello11 Atomism, Art, and Arthur: Danto's Hegelian Turn 172Robert C. Solomon and Kathleen M. HigginsPostscriptKathleen M. HigginsPart IV Historical Knowledge 19712 Art and Its Doubles: Danto, Foucault, and Their SimulacraPostscript 199Gary Shapiro13 The Beginning of the End: Danto on Postmodernism 215Daniel Herwitz14 Danto's Aesthetic: Is It Truly General As He Claims?232David CarrierPart V What Philosophy Is 24915 Art as Religion: Transfigurations of Danto's Dao 251Richard Shusterman16 Looking Beyond the Visible: The Case of Arthur Dantwo267Carlin RomanoPart VI Responses 28317 Replies to Essays 285Arthur C. DantoAfterword: Not by a Soap Box but First by a Kiss 313Arthur C. DantoIndex 317