Garry L. Hagberg

Art and Ethical Criticism

Hrsg. v. Garry L. Hagberg

• Gebundenes Buch

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

Produktdetails

• New Directions in aesthetics
• Verlag: Blackwell Publishers / Wiley & Sons
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Juli 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 160mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 585g
• ISBN-13: 9781405134835
• ISBN-10: 1405134836
• Artikelnr.: 23506992

Autorenporträt

Garry Hagberg is the James H. Ottaway Jr. Professor of Aesthetics and Philosophy at Bard College. He is the author of Art as Language: Wittgenstein, Meaning, and Aesthetic Theory and of Meaning and Interpretation: Wittgenstein, Henry James and Literary Knowledge.

Inhaltsangabe

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