Danto and His Critics

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