内容説明
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
目次
Notes on Contributors vii
Foreword xi
Garry L. Hagberg
Part I: Historical Foundations 1
1 Is Ethical Criticism a Problem? A Historical Perspective 3
Paul Guyer
Part II: Conceptions of Ethical Content 33
2 Narrative and the Ethical Life 35
Noel Carroll
3 A Nation of Madame Bovarys: On the Possibility and Desirability of Moral Improvement through Fiction 63
Joshua Landy
4 Empathy, Expression, and What Artworks Have to Teach 95
Mitchell Green
Part III: Literature and Moral Responsibility 123
5 "Solid Objects," Solid Objections: On Virginia Woolf and Philosophy 125
Paisley Livingston
6 Disgrace: Bernard Williams and J. M. Coetzee 144
Catherine Wilson
7 Facing Death Together: Camus's The Plague 163
Robert C. Solomon
Part IV: Visual Art, Artifacts, and the Ethical Response 185
8 Staying in Touch 187
Carolyn Korsmeyer
9 Susan Sontag, Diane Arbus, and the Ethical Dimensions of Photography 211
David Davies
10 Ethical Judgments in Museums 229
Ivan Gaskell
Part V: Music and Moral Relations 243
11 Cosi's Canon Quartet 245
Stephen Davies
12 Jazz Improvisation and Ethical Interaction: A Sketch of the Connections 259
Garry L. Hagberg
Index 286
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