Alex Danchev

On Good and Evil and the Grey Zone (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

How can works of the imagination help us to understand good and evil in the modern world? In this new collection of essays, Alex Danchev treats the artist as a crucial moral witness of our troubled times, and puts art to work in the service of political and ethical inquiry. He takes inspiration from Seamus Heaney's dictum: 'the imaginative transformation of human life is the means by which we can most truly grasp and comprehend it'. This is a book of blasphemers, world menders, troublemakers, torturers and turbulent priests of every persuasion.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Dezember 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781474410328
• Artikelnr.: 44755404

Autorenporträt

Alex Danchev (1955-2016) was Professor of International Relations at the University of St Andrews, and the recipient of a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship for 2014-17. He was the author of a number of internationally acclaimed biographies, most recently Cézanne (2012), and an influential collection of essays, On Art and War and Terror (2009). He was also the editor of the best-selling 100 Artists' Manifestos (2011).

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Blasphemers and Others
1. 'Good, but what is Good?' Ethics after Ikonnikov
2. Our Brothers' Keeper: Moral Witness
3. Angelus Novus: The Angel of History
4. Infidels and Miscreants: Love and War in Afghanistan
5. Trouble Makers: Laura Poitras and the Problem of Dissent
6. The Silage of History: Anselm Kiefer and the Kieferworld
7. Footfall: The Moral Economy of Reinhard Mucha
8. Tony Blair's Vietnam: The Iraq War and the Special Relationship
9. Accomplicity: Britain, Torture and Terror
10. Mending the World: Artists' Manifestos
11. The Hallowed Mentor: Cézanne by Numbers
12. The Vacuity of Evil: Rumsfeld in Washington
Index.