Art and Ethical Criticism

by Hagberg, Garry L.

• ISBN13: 9781405134835
• ISBN10: 1405134836
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-07-14
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

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

Author Biography

Garry L. Hagberg currently holds a Chair in the School of Philosophy at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, England, and has for some years served as the James H. Ottaway , Jr., Professor of Philosophy and Aesthetics at Bard College. He has published widely, including books such as Art as Language: Wittgenstein, Meaning, and Aesthetic Theory; and Meaning and Interpretation: Wittgenstein, Henry James, and Literary Knowledge. He has also recently published Describing Ourselves: Wittgenstein and Autobiographical Consciousness.

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors

Foreword

Historical Foundations:

Is Ethical Criticism a Problem? A Historical Perspective

Conceptions of Ethical Content

Narrative and the Ethical Life

A Nation of Madame Bovarys: On the Possibility and Desirability of Moral Improvement through Fiction

Empathy, Expression, and What Artworks Have to Teach

Literature and Moral Responsibility

"Solid Objects," Solid Objections: On Virginia Woolf and Philosophy

Disgrace

Facing Death Together: Camus's The Plague

Visual Art, Artifacts, and the Ethical Response

Staying in Touch

Susan Sontag, Diane Arbus, and the Ethical Dimensions of Photography

Ethical Judgments in Museums

Music and Moral Relations

Così's Canon Quartet

Jazz Improvisation and Ethical Interaction: A Sketch of the Connections

Index

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