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  1. Authority and Freedom: A Defense of Art. [REVIEW]Noël Carroll - 2025 - British Journal of Aesthetics 65 (1).
    For roughly two centuries, there has been an ongoing rivalry between two views of art. On the one hand, there is the claim—sometimes heralded by the slogan ‘art.
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    Painting and Presence: Why Paintings Matter.Aurélie J. Debaene - 2025 - British Journal of Aesthetics 65 (1):141-144.
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    Touched by Fashion: On Feeling What we Wear.Laura T. Di Summa - 2025 - British Journal of Aesthetics 65 (1):81-96.
    Fashion is immediately associated with looks. Its popularity and its most consumerist sides thrive in our current culture of image, further highlighting the connection between fashion and an aesthetic that is quintessentially visual. While it is impossible to deny such a connection, this paper explores the relationship between fashion and touch and fashion and “feel”, two terms that, albeit related, deserve independent consideration. I will begin by emphasizing the importance of seeing fashion in relation to a performative understanding of identity, (...)
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    Popular Song and Ethics: Ethical Perspectives and Personal Qualities.Alessandro Giovannelli - 2025 - British Journal of Aesthetics 65 (1):19-32.
    Jerrold Levinson has elegantly defended a proposal for the ethical evaluation of popular songs, which looks at the ‘personal qualities’ a song exhibits. I claim that the personal-qualities theory of artistic expression importantly contributes to explaining how songs get to have their meanings, yet that it does not very profitably extend to their ethical evaluation. I propose that the notion of a work’s ethical perspective best generates a central way of ethically evaluating popular songs, by properly linking the ethical evaluation (...)
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    Epic Theatre as a Form of Platonic Drama.İhsan Gürsoy - 2025 - British Journal of Aesthetics 65 (1):45-60.
    Given Aristotle’s response to Plato’s views by positing a cathartic function for tragedy, it is understandable that an author opposing him through the development of a non-Aristotelian theatrical theory would spontaneously draw closer to Platonic thought. However, Brecht’s stance goes beyond this spontaneous proximity in this debate. This article challenges those critics who have overlooked the direct relationship between Plato and Brecht, and it offers a reasoned decision on Walter Benjamin’s verdict that epic theatre is a form of Platonic drama. (...)
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    Against Recognizability as a Criterion of Work-Performance.Andrew Kania - 2025 - British Journal of Aesthetics 65 (1):33-44.
    Over the past few decades, various philosophers of music have appealed to the notion of recognizability in their theories of the performance of works of Western classical music. In this paper, I attempt to clarify that notion and examine whether it can actually do the jobs it is called upon to execute. I begin with a discussion of Jerrold Levinson’s appeal to (something like) work-recognizability as a criterion of successful work-performance and its influential uptake by Stephen Davies. I then attempt (...)
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    Fiction versus Pretence.Jerrold Levinson - 2025 - British Journal of Aesthetics 65 (1):1-6.
    This paper argues for a distinction between pretending and imagining. Pretending has a public and observable aspect, which imagining does not. The paper then uses this distinction to argue that various forms of fiction, including literature and the theater, do not essentially involve pretence.
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  8. The Sublime of Consciousness.Takuya Niikawa & Uriah Kriegel - 2025 - British Journal of Aesthetics 65 (1):113-130.
    The aesthetic tradition has identified as paradigmatically sublime such objects as imposing mountains and intense storms, as well as monumental art. But the tradition also acknowledges less paradigmatic cases, including sometimes mathematical structures or abstract concepts. In this paper, we argue that there is also a case for considering phenomenal consciousness—the experiential quality of subjective awareness—as a sublime phenomenon. One appreciates this, we argue, when one is struck by (fitting) awe upon contemplating (a) the perplexing existence of something like phenomenal (...)
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    Examining Hypothetical Intentionalism.Moonyoung Song - 2025 - British Journal of Aesthetics 65 (1):7-18.
    This essay examines Jerrold Levinson’s hypothetical intentionalism with respect to the following two objections raised by actual intentionalists: (1) it is arbitrary to exclude certain kinds of evidence, such as the author’s pronouncements of intention, when hypothesizing about authorial intention; and (2) there exist counter-examples. I argue that these objections fail to establish that actual intentionalism is superior to hypothetical intentionalism and that hypothetical intentionalism is more plausible than actual intentionalism. I also suggest, however, that hypothetical intentionalism has difficulties when (...)
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    Bolzano - Essays on Beauty & the Arts. [REVIEW]K. Chan - 2025 - British Journal of Aesthetics:1-4.
    In Essays on Beauty & the Arts (2023) (‘Essays’), Dominic McIver Lopes has unearthed something of a champion for his ongoing mission to rejuvenate analytic aesthetics. ‘The history of analytic aesthetics’, Lopes declares, ‘is dominated by writing on Kant and, to a lesser extent, David Hume. … We badly need to excavate alternatives to the tradition of Hume and Kant’ (p. xvi). As tall of an order this already is, the height of Lopes’s hopes for Bolzano appears to reach further (...)
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