Philosopher

Arthur Danto

Overview

Arthur Coleman Danto (January 1, 1924 – October 25, 2013) was an American art critic, philosopher, and professor at Columbia University. He was best known for having been a long-time art critic for The Nation and for his work in philosophical aesthetics and philosophy of history, though he contributed significantly to a number of fields, including the philosophy of action. His interests included thought, feeling, philosophy of art, theories of representation, philosophical psychology, Hegel's aesthetics, and the philosophers Friedrich Nietzsche and Jean-Paul Sartre.

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Philosophers who discussed Arthur Danto

• Jerry Fodor
• Kendall Walton
• Joseph Margolis
• Kathleen Higgins

Ideas Arthur Danto discusses

• Friedrich Nietzsche
• Jean Wahl
• Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
• Art criticism
• Jean-Paul Sartre
• Philosophy of history
• Aesthetics
• American Academy of Arts and Sciences
• The Nation
• The Journal of Philosophy
• Action theory (philosophy)
• Columbia University
• Detroit
• George Dickie (philosopher)
• Art world
• Noël Carroll
• Classificatory disputes about art

Place in the tradition

Part of Aesthetics.

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