The definition of the human -- Perceiving paintings as paintings -- One and only one correct interpretation -- Toward a phenomenology of painting and literature -- Seeing-in, make-believe, transfiguration: the perception of pictorial representation -- Beauty and truth and the passing of transcendental philosophy
Summary
In The Arts and the Definition of the Human, Margolis introduces a novel theory of the human person or self as a historical artifact and argues that important topics in the philosophy of art, pictorial representation, and the nature of interpretation make no sense when separated from a ""philosophical anthropology"" along the lines he suggests
