Studi di estetica, anno XLVII, IV serie, 1/2019 ISSN 0585-4733, ISSN digitale 1825-8646, DOI 10.7413/18258646078 197 Book forum On Jerrold Levinson’s Aesthetic pursuits. Essays in philosophy of art (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2016, pp. 224) With contributions by Jerrold Levinson, Jérôme Dokic, John Gibson Précis of the book Jerrold Levinson (University of Maryland) Aesthetic pursuits is my fifth collection of essays in aesthetics, and complements my fourth collection, Musical concerns (2015), consist- ing exclusively of essays focusing on music. Aesthetic pursuits, by con- trast, contains essays treating matters other than music, such as liter- ature, film, painting, humor, beauty, artistic value, and aesthetic ex- perience. With one exception, the essays contained in the book were composed between 2006 and 2015. Most of the essays in Aesthetic pursuits were previously un- published, though early versions of two of them, Immoral jokes and Artistic achievement and artistic value, appeared in French, while an early version of another, Toward an adequate conception of aesthetic experience, appeared in German, and a version of yet another, Fare- well to the aesthetician?, appeared in Italian. And though the essays in Aesthetic pursuits might profitably be read in almost any order, one rationale for the order decided on is the placement of essays with overlapping concerns in proximity to one another, so that a given es- say almost always has some concern, whether a theme or an artform, with either the preceding or the succeeding essay. Farewell to the aesthetician? was composed for a special issue of the Italian journal “Aesthetica Preprint Supplementa” on the topic