Includes bibliographical references and index.

Art: The descent of art ; Formalism ; Definitions of art ; Art, creativity, and tradition -- Aesthetic experience: Aesthetic experience : a question of content ; Non-perceptual aesthetic properties : comments for James Shelley ; Aesthetic experience, art, and artists -- Art and Value: Art and alienation ; Art and recollection ; Art and the moral realm ; The wheel of virtue : art, literature, and moral knowledge ; Art and ethical criticism : an overview of recent directions of research ; Politics and aesthetics -- Art and affect: Art and human nature ; Art and mood : preliminary notes and conjectures ; On some affective relations between audiences and characters in popular fictions -- Narrative and humor: Narrative closure ; Narrative and the ethical life ; Humor ; Two comic plots -- The arts: Philosophy and drama : performance, Interpretation and Intentionality ; Literary realism, recognition, and the communication of knowledge ; Dance, imitation, and representation ; Feeling movement : music and dance ; Music, mind, and morality : arousing the body politic.