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Alan Roberts, Aesthetic Pursuits: Essays in Philosophy of Art, The British Journal of Aesthetics , Volume 59, Issue 1, January 2019, Pages 98–101, https://doi.org/10.1093/aesthj/ayx036

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Aesthetic Pursuits is Jerrold Levinson’s newest collection of essays and is marketed as a complement to his 2015 volume Musical Concerns . 1 Whereas Musical Concerns was comprised exclusively of essays on music, Aesthetic Pursuits consists of essays on a variety of topics. As the broad title suggests, these topics are relatively disparate and wide-ranging, including issues of film, humour, literature, beauty and the emotions. All the essays, with one exception, were written after 2006 and offer a view into Levinson’s thinking over the last decade. As a result, the collection features a more critical engagement with contemporary aestheticians than his previous volumes.

The essays start with ‘Farewell to the Aesthetician?’, a short paper in which Levinson asks, tongue partly in cheek, whether aesthetics has been rendered redundant by other disciplines. Thankfully, Levinson concludes that the aesthetician is safe for now. He paints three caricatures of possible replacements—the cognitive scientist of art, the professional art critic and the practising artist—and argues in each case that the aesthetician has some additional worth. For example, the cognitive scientist may be able to address empirical questions about art, but they cannot address conceptual or normative questions, as the aesthetician can.

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In this Introduction, Jerrold Levinson introduces each of the thirteen essays appearing in the volume and provides the context in which each was written. Levinson also gives the rationale behind the collection of these essays and the order in which they have been arranged.

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