Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism
May 1, 2011
Shannon Foskett
1 citation
Stafford, Barbara Maria. Echo Objects: The Cognitive Work of Images. University of Chicago Press, 2007, xiii + 281 pp., 14 color illus. + 93 b&w illus., $45.00 cloth, $30.00 paper. Echo Objects is a visionary, masterful project that delivers on the promise of robust interdisciplinary work. Motivated by recent findings and speculations in neuroscience and the philosophy of mind, Barbara...
Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism
May 1, 2011
Richard Eldridge
Margolis, Joseph. The Cultural Spaces of the Arts and the Infelicities of Reductionism. Columbia University Press, 2010, xvi + 213 pp., $24.50 cloth. For over fifty years now, Joseph Margolis has systematically explored the concepts of art, person, understanding, and culture and the relations among them. This book is both a short summa of and an argumentative coda to those wide‐ranging...
Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism
February 1, 2010
Raymond Martin
HAGBERG, GARRY l. Describing Ourselves: Wittgenstein and Autobiographical Consciousness.Oxford University Press, 2008, xv + 288 pp., $70.00 cloth. The first stated, and most inclusive, aim that Garry Hagberg gives for his book is “to mine Wittgenstein's later writings (and then to extend the discussion well beyond those writings but along discernibly Wittgensteinian lines) for an account of the...
Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism
May 1, 2009
Richard Shusterman
55 citations
Embodiment is a universal feature of human life, and so is body consciousness. Body consciousness, as I understand it, is not merely the consciousness that a mind may have of the body as an object, but includes the embodied consciousness that a living, sentient body directs at the world and also experiences in itself (and through which it indeed can experience itself as both subject and...