REISSUE-Ep 16: Arthur Danto on Art (w/ New Intro)
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
Mark Linsenmayer
4.6 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 7 February 2022
⏱️ 136 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
We newly introduce the classic 2010 episode on Danto's "The Philosophical Disenfranchisement of Art," "The Appreciation and Interpretation of Works of Art," and "The End of Art" (1986).
What effect should the avant garde have on our understanding of what art is? Danto gives a picture of philosophy and art at war throughout history: Philosophy says that art can't get at truth and is otherwise useless, yet philosophers like Plato seem afraid of the power of art to corrupt. What's the deal?
Want to hear more vintage, behind-the-paywall discussions like this? Become a PEL Supporter at partiallyexaminedlife.com/support.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Hey, this is the partially examined life, a special presentation we're going to give a new |
| 0:12.0 | introduction to a reissued episode. |
| 0:15.6 | This was on Arthur Donto. |
| 0:17.0 | You're going to hear us talk for a little while, looking back at the episode, relating |
| 0:21.8 | it to what we're about to record on Roger Scruton. |
| 0:25.1 | If you want to hear us talk more about this, go become a partially examined life citizen |
| 0:29.6 | and you can hear the full length nightcap, which this is excerpted from. |
| 0:34.7 | This is an episode from Foreverigo. |
| 0:38.5 | It's episode 16, 2010. |
| 0:41.5 | The original version includes quite a long preface before we even get to Donto, I'm |
| 0:48.1 | going to remove a good chunk of that from the public version. |
| 0:52.4 | But in what you will hear that remains, there's still some reflecting on the project as |
| 0:57.1 | it was back then and our attitudes toward academic philosophy and that's all fun to hear how |
| 1:03.0 | perhaps our views have changed. |
| 1:04.6 | I don't know, Seth, you felt the strongest about that. |
| 1:07.9 | Do you feel still feel the same about that? |
| 1:10.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:11.0 | Some listener had said, you guys seem pretty angry and disgusted with philosophy for people |
| 1:15.6 | who started to do it. |
| 1:17.6 | Why do you hate it so much? |
| 1:19.0 | The net net for me was that I don't hate philosophy. |
| 1:21.2 | I just didn't want to do academic philosophy. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Mark Linsenmayer, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Mark Linsenmayer and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.