Art and Ethical Criticism

1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-1-4051-3483-5
Verlag: Wiley

Buch, Englisch, 304 Seiten, Format (B × H): 164 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 586 g

Reihe: New Directions in Aesthetics

Here is a timely and philosophically significant contribution to modern aesthetics featuring some of the best contemporary work in philosophical studies of literature, moral beliefs, and thinking in art. This multiple-author anthology consistently reflects the importance of a moral life of engagement with works of art and their particular insights.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hagberg, Garry L.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ästhetik
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Kunsttheorie, Kunstphilosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

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Contents.

Notes on Contributors.

Foreword.

Garry L. Hagberg.

Part I: Historical Foundations.

1 Is Ethical Criticism a Problem? A Historical Perspective.

Paul Guyer.

Part II: Conceptions of Ethical Content.

2 Narrative and the Ethical Life.

Noël Carroll.

3 A Nation of Madame Bovarys: On the Possibility and Desirability of.

Moral Improvement through Fiction.

Joshua Landy.

4 Empathy, Expression, and What Artworks Have to Teach.

Mitchell Green.

Part III: Literature and Moral Responsibility.

5 "Solid Objects," Solid Objections: On Virginia Woolf and Philosophy.

Paisley Livingston.

6 Disgrace: Bernard Williams and J. M. Coetzee.

Catherine Wilson.

7 Facing Death Together: Camus's The Plague.

Robert C. Solomon.

Part IV: Visual Art, Artifacts, and the Ethical Response.

8 Staying in Touch.

Carolyn Korsmeyer.

9 Susan Sontag, Diane Arbus, and the Ethical Dimensions of Photography.

David Davies.

10 Ethical Judgments in Museums.

Ivan Gaskell.

Part V: Music and Moral Relations.

11 Così's Canon Quartet.

Stephen Davies.

12 Jazz Improvisation and Ethical Interaction: A Sketch of the Connections.

Garry L. Hagberg.

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Garry Hagberg is the James H. Ottaway Jr. Professor of Aesthetics and Philosophy at Bard College. He is the author of Art as Language: Wittgenstein, Meaning, and Aesthetic Theory and of Meaning and Interpretation: Wittgenstein, Henry James and Literary Knowledge.