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The British Society of Aesthetics
President: RICHARD WOLLHEIM
Vice President: CHRISTOPHER NORRIS
Hon. Secretary: RICHARD WOODFIELD
Hon. Treasurer: BEN BASING
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© Oxford University Press 1994
THE
BRITISH JOURNAL OF
AESTHETICS
VOLUME 34 NO. 3
JULY 1994
CONTENTS
Scheming Schemata
MALCOLM BULL
2O7
JUSTINE NOEL
218
DENIS DUTTON
226
ARNOLD BERLEANT
242
ROBERT STECKER
255
BELA SZABADOS
266
ADIL MUSTAFA AHMAD
278
Space, Time and the Sublime in Hume's Treatise
Kant and the Conditions of Artistic Beauty
Beyond Disinterestedness
Historical Functionahsm or the Four Factor Theory
Reading Rousseau through the Eyes of Embarrassment
The Erotic and the Pornographic in Arab
Culture
The Aesthetics of Chess and the Chess Problem
c.
P. RAVILIOUS
285
Book Reviews
291
Books Received
311
Journals Received
313
BOOK REVIEWS
The Aesthetics of Environment: Arnold Berleant
GORDON J. GILES
The Rationality of Feeling: Understanding the Arts in Education:
David Best
HUGH
A Companion to Aesthetics: Edited by David Cooper
Profundity: A Universal Value: Jean Gabbert Harrell
The Philosophy of the Visual Arts: Edited by
Philip Alperson
BREDIN
291
292
DIAN£ COLLINSON
294
ANTONY LAVERS
295
SCOTT KOTERBAY
296
Hanging the Head: Portraiture and Social Formation in Eighteenth-Century
England: Marda Pointon
DAVID MANNINGS 298
Themes in American Painting: A Reference Work to Common Styles
and Genres: Robert Henkes
CLIFF GETTY MCMAHON 299
Minimal Art: The Critical Perspective: Frances Colpitt
s.
Color Harmonies: Augusto Garau
B. KENNEDY
PHILIP MEESON
300
302
Gadamer and Hermeneutics:
Edited by Hugh J. Silverman
MARK GULLICK
Cinders: Jacques Derrida
MARK GULLICK
302
304
Rules and Conventions: Literature, Philosophy, Social Theory:
Edited by Mette Hjort
The Subject of Modernity: Anthony J. Cascardi
M. A. R. HABIB 305
MARK GULLICK
306
DAVID BALL
308
Reconfigurations: Critical Theory and General Economy:
Arkady Plotnitsky
Language, Music, and Mind: Diana Raffman
GEOFFREY WADE
309
NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
MALCOLM BULL is Research Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford.
JUSTINE NOEL has recently completed a Ph.D. degree on Hume's philosophy of art
at Queen's University at Kingston, Canada. Currently she is a researcher at McGill
University, Montreal.
DENIS DUTTON, Senior Lecturer in the Philosophy of Art at the University of
Canterbury, New Zealand, has recently been researching New Guinean aesthetics. He
edits the journal Philosophy and Literature.
ARNOLD BERLEANT is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Long Island University,
C.W. Post Campus, Greenvale, New York, USA and Secretary-General of the
International Association for Aesthetics. His most recent books are Art and Engagement
(Temple UP, 1991) and The Aesthetics of Environment (Temple, 1992).
ROBERT STECKER is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Central Michigan University,
Mount Pleasant, Michigan, USA.
BEIA SZABADOS is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Regina, Canada. He
is the author of In Light of Chaos (1990), a co-editor of On the Track of Reason (1992)
and has published essays on self-deception, emotions and aspects of the philosophy of
Wittgenstein.
ADn. MUSTAFA AHMAD is former Head of the Department of Architecture, University
of Khartoum, Sudan. He has published widely in the fields of building science and
human settlements.
c. P. RAVILIOUS is a Sub-Librarian at the University of Sussex.