The Oxford Handbook of Ethics and Art

by Harold, James

• ISBN13: 9780197539798
• ISBN10: 0197539793
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2023-09-15
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

James Harold is Professor of Philosophy at Mount Holyoke College, and the author of Dangerous Art: On Moral Criticism of Artworks (Oxford University Press, 2020). He is the former Director of the Weissman Center for Leadership and the Liberal Arts. He has published widely in ethics and aesthetics, with a focus on imaginative engagement with artworks, audience engagement and interpretation, meta-ethics and meta-aesthetics, and the philosophies of ancient Greece and pre-Han China.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Introduction
James Harold

Part I: Historical Perspectives on Ethics and Art

Chapter 2: Ethics and the Arts in Early China
Eric L. Hutton
Chapter 3: Ancient Greek Philosophers on Art and Ethics: How Can Immoral Art be Ethically Beneficial?
Pierre Destrée
Chapter 4: Art and Ethics in Islam
Oliver Leaman
Chapter 5: Ethically-Grounded Nature of Japanese Aesthetic Sensibility
Yuriko Saito
Chapter 6: Art, Ethics, and Value in the Modern Aesthetic Tradition
Timothy M. Costelloe
Chapter 7: The Knowledge that Joins Ethics to Art in Yorùbá Culture
Barry Hallen
Chapter 8: Art and Ethics in India in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Nalini Bhushan and Arvind Krishna Mehrotra
Chapter 9: Art and Ethics: Formalism
Michalle Gal
Chapter 10: Harlem Renaissance: An Interpretation of Racialized Art and Ethics
Jacoby Adeshi Carter and Sheena Michele Mason
Chapter 11: Evolution of Art and Moral Concerns in New China: From Mao Zedong's Yenan Talks to Xi Jinping's Speech on Artistic Practice
Eva Kit Wah Man

Part II: Theoretical Approaches to Ethics and Art

Chapter 12: Meta-ethics and Meta-aesthetics
Alex King
Chapter 13: Distinguishing between Ethics and Aesthetics
Moonyoung Song
Chapter 14: Relativism and the Ethical Criticism of Art
Ted Nannicelli
Chapter 15: Kantian Approaches to Ethical Judgment of Artworks
Sandra Shapshay
Chapter 16: Consequentialist Approaches to Ethical Judgment of Artworks
Scott Woodcock
Chapter 17: Virtue Aesthetics, Art, and Ethics
Nancy E. Snow
Chapter 18: Feminism, Ethics, and Art
Amy Mullin
Chapter 19: Autonomism
Nils-Hennes Stear
Chapter 20: Moralism
Noël Carroll
Chapter 21: Immoralism and Contextualism
Daniel Jacobson
Chapter 22: Aestheticism
Becca Rothfeld

Part III: Ethical Issues in Individual Arts

Chapter 23: Painting
Elisabeth Schellekens
Chapter 24: Ethics and Literature
Peter Lamarque
Chapter 25: Film
Carl Plantinga
Chapter 26: Ethics and Music
Kathleen Higgins
Chapter 27: Some Moral Features of Theatrical Art
James R. Hamilton
Chapter 28: Dance Ethics
Aili Whelan
Chapter 29: Architecture
Saul Fisher
Chapter 30: Ethics and Video Games
Christopher Bartel
Chapter 31: Art and Pornography: Ethical Issues
A.W. Eaton
Chapter 32: Humor Ethics
Paul Butterfield
Chapter 33: Monuments and Memorials: Ethics Writ Large
Jeanette Bicknell, Jennifer Judkins, and Carolyn Korsmeyer
Chapter 34: Ethical Issues in Internet Culture and New Media
Anthony Cross

Part IV: Ethical Problems in the Arts

Chapter 35: Ethics of Artistic Authorship
Karen Gover
Chapter 36: Group Agency, Alienation, and Public Art
Mary Beth Willard
Chapter 37: Immoral Artists
Erich Hatala Matthes
Chapter 38: Cultural Appropriation
C. Thi Nguyen and Matthew Strohl
Chapter 39: Forgery
Darren Hudson Hick
Chapter 40: Art, Ethics, and Vandalism
Sondra Bacharach
Chapter 41: Censorship and Selective Support for the Arts
Brian Soucek
Chapter 42: Art, Race, and Racism
Adriana Clavel-Vázquez
Chapter 43: Representation, Identity, and Ethics in Art
Paul C. Taylor
Chapter 44: Ethics and Imagination
Joy Shim and Shen-yi Liao
Chapter 45: Moral Learning from Art
Eileen John