Levinson, Jerrold

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LEVINSON, Jerrold

LEVINSON, Jerrold. American, b. 1948. Genres: Essays, Philosophy. Career: State University of New York, Albany, NY, assistant professor, 1974-75; University of Maryland, College Park, assistant professor, 1976-81, associate professor, 1981-91, professor, 1991-. Visiting professor: University of London, 1991, Johns Hopkins University, 1993, Universite de Rennes, 1998, Columbia University, 2000; National Endowment for Humanities, summer institute, co-director, 1991, director, 2000. Publications: Music, Art, and Metaphysics (essays), 1990; The Pleasures of Aesthetics (essays), 1996; Music in the Moment (monograph), 1998; (ed.) Aesthetics and Ethics (essays), 1998; (co-ed.) Aesthetic Concepts (essays), 2000; (ed.) Oxford Handbook of Aesthetics, 2002. Address: Department of Philosophy, Skinner Building, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, U.S.A.