Daniel Herwitz has written widely in the aesthetics of modern and contemporary art, film, music and architecture. His first philosophical book, Making Theory/Constructing Art (Chicago 1993) discusses work of Arthur Danto in relation to the theoretically driven practices of avant-garde art. Most recently he has edited Action, Art, History: Engagements with Arthur Danto with Michael Kelly (Columbia 2007) and The Don Giovanni Moment with Lydia Goehr (Columbia 2006) and submitted a manuscript on the aesthetics of film, stardom and celebrity to a publisher. Herwitz also works in the area of transitional justice: a decade living and working in South Africa led to book of essays, Race and Reconciliation (Minnesota, 2003), and he continues to write on questions of social policy. Herwitz earned a PhD from the University of Chicago.