Jerrold Levinson

Jerrold Levinson is Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at the University of Maryland and Past President of the American Society for Aesthetics, 2001-2003. He is the author of five collections of essays, Music, Art, and Metaphysics (Cornell UP 1990, 2nd ed. Oxford UP 2010), The Pleasures of Aesthetics (Cornell UP 1996), Contemplating Art (Oxford UP 2006), Musical Concerns (Oxford UP 2015), and Aesthetic Pursuits (Oxford UP 2016), plus a monograph, Music in the Moment (Cornell UP 1998) [French edition, La musique sur le vif (2013)]. Levinson is also editor of Aesthetics and Ethics (Cambridge UP 1998), The Oxford Handbook of Aesthetics (Oxford UP 2003), and Suffering Art Gladly (Palgrave Macmillan 2013), as well as co-editor of Aesthetic Concepts (Oxford UP 2001), Art and Pornography (Oxford UP 2012), and The Oxford Handbook of Western Music and Philosophy (Oxford UP 2021).

Levinson has been a visiting professor at Johns Hopkins University, Columbia University, Cornell University, University of London, University of Canterbury [New Zealand], Université de Rennes [France], Université Libre de Bruxelles [Belgium], Universidade de Lisboa [Portugal], University of Kent [England], Conservatorio della Svizzera Italiana [Switzerland], and Centre de Recherches sur les Arts et le Langage [Paris].

During academic year 2010-2011 Levinson held an International Chaire Francqui at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium, and in 2011 he was awarded the Premio Internationale of the Società Italiana d’Estetica, which resulted in a volume of his essays in Italian, Arte, critica e storia (Aesthetica Edizione 2011). In addition, two volumes of his essays in philosophy of music in French translation have now appeared: Essais de la philosophie de la musique: Définition, ontologie, interprétation (Vrin 2015), and L’Expérience musicale: Appréciation, expression, émotions (Vrin 2020).