"The relationship between philosophy and aesthetic criticism has occupied Robert Pippin throughout his illustrious career. Whether discussing film, literature, or modern and contemporary art, Pippin's claim is that we cannot understand aesthetic objects unless we reckon with the fact that some distinct philosophical issue is integral to their meaning. In his latest offering, Philosophy by Other Means, we are treated to a collection of essays that builds on this larger project, offering profound ruminations on philosophical issues in aesthetics along with revelatory readings of Henry James, Marcel Proust, and J. M. Coetzee"--.

• Contents
• Part 1. The Arts in Philosophy
  • 1. Philosophical Criticism
  • 2. Kant and the Problem of Tragedy
  • 3. The Status of Literature in Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit: On the Lives of Concepts
  • 4. The Absence of Aesthetics in Hegel’s Aesthetics
  • 5. Hegel on Painting
  • 6. Authenticity in Painting: Remarks on Michael Fried’s Art History
  • 7. Photography as Art: Fried and Intention
  • 8. Adorno, Aesthetic Negativity, and the Problem of Idealism
• Part 2. Philosophy in the Arts
  • 9. On Maisie’s Knowing Her Own Mind
  • 10. Subjectivity: A Proustian Problem
  • 11. The Shadow of Love: The Role of Jealousy in Proust’s À la recherche du temps perdu
  • 12. The Paradoxes of Power in the Early Novels of J. M. Coetzee
  • 13. Philosophical Fiction? On J. M. Coetzee’s Elizabeth Costello
• Acknowledgments
• Works Cited
• Index