Artifacts, Representations and Social Practice

Preface / Carol C. Gould.- Marxology / Robert S. Cohen.- Art.- Institutional Blessing: The Museum as Canon- Maker.- "Suddenly One Has The Right Eyes": Illusion and Iconoclasm in the Early Gombrich.- Danto, Dutton, and our Preunderstanding of Tribal Art and Artifacts.- In Defense of Musical Representation: Music, Representation and the Hybrid Arts.- Two Vignettes in the History of the Mensuration of Value.- Irony, Ltd., and the Future of Art.- A Genealogy of 'Aura': Walter Benjamin's Idea of Beauty.- Science.- Analysis and Synthesis According to Ibn al-Haytham.- Changes in the Concepts of Space and Time Brought about by Relativity.- Philosophy and Its History.- Hegel and the Doctrine of Expressivism.- Translating Feuerbach.- Is the Enlightenment Over?.- Realism.- An Anatomy of Wittgenstein's Picture Theory.- Rationality and Commitment.- The Theses on Feuerbach: A Road not Taken.- Donald Davidson's Philosophical Strategies.- Time and Conscious Experience.- Ten Philosophical Poems.- Politics and Praxis.- The Philosophy of Optimism and Pessimism.- Life is not a Poem?.- Levinas, Feminism, Holocaust, Ecocide.- Marx After Marxism.- The Good and the Rational.- The End of a Metaphor: The Base and the Superstructure.- The Marxian Vision of a (Better) Possible Future: End of a Grand Illusion?.- On the Communicative Dimension of Social Practice.- The Bread of Faithful Speech.- Unsafe at Any Depth: Geological Methods, Subjective Judgments, and Nuclear Waste Disposal.- Community and Difference: Reflections in the Wake of Rodney King.- Partisanship, Universalism, and the Dialectics of Moral Consciousness.- NAME INDEX.