Raising interesting issues, and answering questions, this collection presents over twenty of the world's most prominent thinkers who discuss the question: does philosophy have anything to say to art history? It analyzes the commentary by twenty scholars on an animated conversation among ten scholars and aestheticians.

This stimulating volume in a new series presents not one, but many answers to the question: does philosophy have anything to say to art history? These two very distinct academic fields offer very different ways of understanding artworks. In this unprecedented collection, over twenty of the world's most prominent thinkers on the subject - including Arthur Danto, Stephen Melville, Wendy Steiner, Alexander Nehamas and Jay Bernstein - discuss the disconnect between these two disciplines. With a radically innovative structure, the book analyzes the commentary by twenty scholars on an animated conversation among ten scholars and aestheticians. The range of responses examined is diverse, from informal letters to full essays with footnotes, and the volume ends with two synoptic essays, one by a prominent aesthetician, and the other by a literary critic. Raising interesting issues, and answering so many questions, "Art History versus Aesthetics" will be an absolute must on the shelves of all art history students.

Series Preface
1. Introductory Essay: The Border of the Aesthetic
2. Starting Points
'Exorcising the Dreariness of Aesthetics'
'Why don't Art Historians attend Aesthetics Conferences?'
3. The Art Seminar: Participants: Arthur Danto, Thierry De Duve, Diarmuid Costello, Martin Donougho, David Raskin, Anna Dezeuze, Richard Woodfield, Dominic Willsdon, Francis Halsall, Nicholas Favey, John Hymna, David Raskin
4. Assessments
Diarmuid Costello
Anna Dezeuze
Dominic Willsdon
David Raskin
John Hyman
Francis Halsall
Richard Woodfield
Ladislav Kesner
Joseph Margolis
Crispin Sartwell
Paul Crowther
Mary Rawlinson
Jan Bakos
Alexander Nehamas
Ciaran Benson
Wendy Steiner
Mathew Rampley
Keith Moxey
Christine Wertheim
Eva Schurmann
Harry Cooper
Adrian Rifkin
David Getsy
Michael Kelly
Margaret Iversen
Michael Golec
Michael Newman
Gregg Horowitz
Stephen Melville
5. Afterwords
'Modernism as Aesthetics and Art History'
'Island Mysteries'
Notes on Contributors