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Marshall Cohen

An expert on performance art, body art, contemporary Euro-American experimental theater and modern Chinese live art
  • USC University Professor emeritus
  • Dean emeritus, College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
  • Professor emeritus of law and philosophy
Office: (213) 276-4399
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Expertise

  • philosophy and public affairs
  • moral, legal and political philosophy
  • theory and criticism of the arts (especially film, theater and dance)
  • aesthetics

Additional Information

  • Co-author of Film Theory and Criticism: Introductory Readings, 5th ed. (1998) and What Is Dance? Readings in Theory and Criticism (1983)
  • Founding editor of Philosophy and Public Affairs