Autore: Michael Kelly

Arthur C. Danto is the Johnsonian Professor of Philosophy emeritus at Columbia University and art critic for The Nation. His many books include Narration and Knowledge, After the End of Art, Nietzsche as Philosopher, and Art in the Historical Present, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award. He was awarded the Prix Philosophe in 2003.Daniel Herwitz is director of the Institute for the Humanities at the University of Michigan, where he also holds professorships in art and philosophy. He has taught at the University of Natal, South Africa, where he was chair of the Department of Philosophy. In addition to numerous articles on philosophy, art, politics, and culture, he is the author of Race and Reconciliation: Essays from the New South Africa and Making Theory/Constructing Art: On the Authority of the Avant-Garde. He has just completed a manuscript called Diana”s Grace: Aura and Icon in our Time, about film, television, and celebrity, and is at work on a volume of short stories, one of which recently appeared in Michigan Quarterly Review. Michael Kelly is chair of the Department of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Formerly he was the executive director of the American Philosophical Association and managing editor of the Journal of Philosophy. He has taught philosophy at Columbia and philosophy and art history at the University of Delaware and is the author of Iconoclasm in Aesthetics and the editor-in-chief of the Encyclopedia of Aesthetics.