Hagberg Art and Ethical Criticism

1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-1-4443-0282-0
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 304 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: New Directions in Aesthetics

Through a series of essays, Art and Ethical Criticismexplores the complex relationship between the arts and morality.
* Reflects the importance of a moral life of engagement withworks of art
* Forms part of the prestigious New Directions inAesthetics series, which confronts the most intriguing problemsin aesthetics and the philosophy of art today

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hagberg, Garry L.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Notes on Contributors vii
Foreword xi
Garry L. Hagberg
Part I: Historical Foundations 1
1 Is Ethical Criticism a Problem? A Historical Perspective 3
Paul Guyer
Part II: Conceptions of Ethical Content 33
2 Narrative and the Ethical Life 35
Noel Carroll
3 A Nation of Madame Bovarys: On the Possibility and Desirability of Moral Improvement through Fiction 63
Joshua Landy
4 Empathy, Expression, and What Artworks Have to Teach 95
Mitchell Green
Part III: Literature and Moral Responsibility 123
5 "Solid Objects," Solid Objections: On Virginia Woolf and Philosophy 125
Paisley Livingston
6 Disgrace: Bernard Williams and J. M. Coetzee 144
Catherine Wilson
7 Facing Death Together: Camus's The Plague 163
Robert C. Solomon
Part IV: Visual Art, Artifacts, and the Ethical Response 185
8 Staying in Touch 187
Carolyn Korsmeyer
9 Susan Sontag, Diane Arbus, and the Ethical Dimensions of Photography 211
David Davies
10 Ethical Judgments in Museums 229
Ivan Gaskell
Part V: Music and Moral Relations 243
11 Cosi's Canon Quartet 245
Stephen Davies
12 Jazz Improvisation and Ethical Interaction: A Sketch of the Connections 259
Garry L. Hagberg
Index 286

Über Autor(innen)

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.