On Good and Evil and the Grey Zone

Alex Danchev (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

192 Seiten

2017
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4744-2800-2 (ISBN)

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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.

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).

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.

Erscheinungsdatum	15.08.2017
Zusatzinfo	20 black and white illustrations
Verlagsort	Edinburgh
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-4744-2800-2 / 1474428002
ISBN-13	978-1-4744-2800-2 / 9781474428002
Zustand	Neuware