Reflections on Aesthetic Judgment and other Essays

Benjamin Tilghman has been a leading commentator on analytic philosophy for many years

Contents: Foreword; The literary work of art; Aesthetic descriptions and secondary senses; Danto and the ontology of literature; Understanding people and understanding art; Picture space and moral space; Reflections on aesthetic theory; Literature, philosophy and nonsense; Charles Le Brun, theory, philosophy and irony; Architecture, expression and the understanding of a culture; Perspective, painting and the look of the world; A conceptual dimension of art history; Language and painting, border wars and pipe dreams; Literature, human understanding and morality; Reflections on aesthetic judgment; Index of names; Index of subjects.