The Cultural Spaces of the Arts and the Infelicities of Reductionism by margolis, joseph
Richard Eldridge
Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism May 1, 2011 DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6245.2011.01465_5.x (opens in new tab)
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| Key points | Argues against reductionist accounts of art, person, understanding, and culture, proposing instead that these concepts occupy distinct cultural spaces that resist reductionist explanation. The book serves as both a summation of and an argumentative coda to Margolis's more than fifty years of philosophical work on these themes. |
Abstract
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 explorations.