Table of Contents

PrefaceFirst Words1. Piecemeal Reductionism: A Sense of the Issue2. The New IntentionalismInterlude. A Glance at Reductionism in the Philosophy of Mind3. Beardsley and the Intentionalists4. Intentionalism's Prospects5. A Failed StrategyNotesIndex

Promotional Information

The Cultural Space of the Arts and the Infelicities of Reductionism extends Joseph Margolis's wide-ranging, vigorously phrased, and hard-hitting account of the 'encultured' and 'historied' nature of human thinking, selfhood, and art. It advances a trenchant critique of an opposing trend that he provocatively identifies in the late-twentieth-century analytic philosophy of art. -- Whitney Davis, University of California at Berkeley Joseph Margolis's message is important and timely. It is relevant for all those concerned with contemporary aesthetics and the interfaces between cultural and non-cultural domains. This work builds upon themes that have marked one of the most fertile philosophical careers of our generation. -- Michael Krausz, editor of Relativism: A Contemporary Anthology

About the Author

Joseph Margolis is Laura H. Carnell Professor of Philosophy at Temple University and has just completed the third of a trio of books surveying American philosophy in the second half of the twentieth century. This volume is one of three recently published works that link salient problems in the philosophy of art and the theory of culture.