Art and Ethical Criticism (eBook)

Garry L. Hagberg (Herausgeber)

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2009 | 1. Auflage
304 Seiten
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
978-1-4443-0282-0 (ISBN)

Infos

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

Autor

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.

Inhalt

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 aesthetics
to consider the cross-impacts between these philosophical
disciplines. The selections are widely representative of approaches
to ethical criticism of artworks, and the ethical/aesthetic
dimensions of the literary, visual, and auditory arts."
(CHOICE)

"Garry Hagberg's new anthology Art and Ethical Criticism
consists of twelve new essays--ten by philosophers, one each
by an art historian and a professor of French--together with a
short foreword. The overall argument that emerges from these essays
is that the first, broader topic (the powers and interest of art
for human subjects) is more important than the second, narrower
topic (the relation between artistic and moral value), and the
essays are strongest exactly when they illuminate the powers and
interest of art, precisely by not separating the artistic and
ethical features of a work sharply from each other." (Notre Dame
Philosophical Reviews)

"This is an excellent and genuinely useful collection of essays on
a very important topic that is just beginning to receive wide
attention from analytical philosophers."

-Ted Cohen, University of Chicago

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 22.1.2009
• Reihe/Serie: New Directions in Aesthetics
• Reihe/Serie: New Directions in Aesthetics
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Schlagworte: Aesthetics • Ästhetik • Ästhetik • Ethik • Philosophie • Philosophy
• ISBN-10: 1-4443-0282-5 / 1444302825
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4443-0282-0 / 9781444302820