Artifacts, Representations and Social Practice: Essays for Marx Wartofsky

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.