Art and Ethical Criticism
ISBN: 9781444337877 | 1444337874
Edition: 1stFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Pub. Date: 10/18/2010
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Through a series of essays, Art and Ethical Criticism explores the complex relationship between the arts and morality.
Provides a timely and philosophically significant contribution to modern aesthetics Features some of the best contemporary work in philosophi... MORE
- Reflects the importance of a moral life of engagement with works of art
- Forms part of the prestigious New Directions in Aesthetics series, which confronts the most intriguing problems in aesthetics and the philosophy of art today
Provides a timely and philosophically significant contribution to modern aesthetics Features some of the best contemporary work in philosophi... MORE
| Notes on Contributors | p. vii |
| Foreword | p. xi |
| Historical Foundations | p. 1 |
| Is Ethical Criticism a Problem? A Historical Perspective | p. 3 |
| Conceptions of Ethical Content | p. 33 |
| Narrative and the Ethical Life | p. 35 |
| A Nation of Madame Bovarys: On the Possibility and Desirability of Moral Improvement through Fiction | p. 63 |
| Empathy, Expression, and What Artworks Have t... MORE | p. 95 |
| Literature and Moral Responsibility | p. 123 |
| "Solid Objects," Solid Objections: On Virginia Woolf and Philosophy | p. 125 |
| Disgrace: Bernard Williams and J. M. Coetzee | p. 144 |
| Facing Death Together: Camus's The Plague | p. 163 |
| Visual Art, Artifacts, and the Ethical Response | p. 185 |
| Staying in Touch | p. 187 |
| Susan Sontag, Diane Arbus, and the Ethical Dimensions of Photography | p. 211 |
| Ethical Judgments in Museums | p. 229 |
| Music and Moral Relations | p. 243 |
| Cosė's Canon Quartet | p. 245 |
| Jazz Improvisation and Ethical Interaction: A Sketch of the Connections | p. 259 |
| Index | p. 286 |
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Garry L. Hagberg is the James H. Ottaway Professor of Philosophy and Aesthetics at Bard College, and in recent years has held a Chair in the School of Philosophy at the University of East Anglia and a visiting fellowship at Cambridge University. He has published and lectured widely; his books include Describing Ourselves: Wittgenstein and Autobiographical Consciousness, Art as Language, and Meaning and Interpretation. He is co-editor of The Blackwell Companion to the Philosophy of Literature (with Walter Jost) and of the journal Philosophy and Literature.
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