Art and Ethical Criticism

by Hagberg, Garry L.

• ISBN13: 9781444337877
• ISBN10: 1444337874
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-10-18
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

A timely and philosophically significant contribution to modern aesthetics featuring some of the best contemporary work in philosophical studies of literature, moral beliefs, and thinking in art 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 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.

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors	p. vii
Foreword	p. xi
Historical Foundations	p. 1
Is Ethical Criticism a Problem? A Historical Perspective	p. 3
Conceptions of Ethical Content	p. 33
Narrative and the Ethical Life	p. 35
A Nation of Madame Bovarys: On the Possibility and Desirability of Moral Improvement through Fiction	p. 63
Empathy, Expression, and What Artworks Have to Teach	p. 95
Literature and Moral Responsibility	p. 123
"Solid Objects," Solid Objections: On Virginia Woolf and Philosophy	p. 125
Disgrace: Bernard Williams and J. M. Coetzee	p. 144
Facing Death Together: Camus's The Plague	p. 163
Visual Art, Artifacts, and the Ethical Response	p. 185
Staying in Touch	p. 187
Susan Sontag, Diane Arbus, and the Ethical Dimensions of Photography	p. 211
Ethical Judgments in Museums	p. 229
Music and Moral Relations	p. 243
Così's Canon Quartet	p. 245
Jazz Improvisation and Ethical Interaction: A Sketch of the Connections	p. 259
Index	p. 286
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