Art and Ethical Criticism (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Hagberg, Garry L.

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Produktbeschreibung

Through a series of essays, Art and Ethical Criticism explores the complex relationship between the arts and morality. * 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

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley-Blackwell
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Januar 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781444302820
• Artikelnr.: 37341009

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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

Rezensionen

"Hagberg draws together some of the top thinkers in aestheticsto consider the cross-impacts between these philosophicaldisciplines. The selections are widely representative of approachesto ethical criticism of artworks, and the ethical/aestheticdimensions of the literary, visual, and auditory arts."(CHOICE)

"Garry Hagberg's new anthology Art and Ethical Criticismconsists of twelve new essays--ten by philosophers, one eachby an art historian and a professor of French--together with ashort foreword. The overall argument that emerges from these essaysis that the first, broader topic (the powers and interest of artfor human subjects) is more important than the second, narrowertopic (the relation between artistic and moral value), and theessays are strongest exactly when they illuminate the powers andinterest of art, precisely by not separating the artistic andethical features of a work sharply from each other." (Notre DamePhilosophical Reviews)"This is an excellent and genuinely useful collection of essays ona very important topic that is just beginning to receive wideattention from analytical philosophers."
-Ted Cohen, University of Chicago