Art and Ethical Criticism

Copyright © 2008 Blackwell Publishing Ltd

Art and Ethical Criticism

Editor(s): Garry L. Hagberg

Published Online: 23 FEB 2009

Print ISBN: 9781405134835

Online ISBN: 9781444302813

DOI: 10.1002/9781444302813

Series Editor(s): Dominic McIver Lopes, Berys Gaut

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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

Table of contents

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      Front Matter (pages i–xii)

  2. Part I: Historical Foundations

    1. Chapter 1

      Is Ethical Criticism a Problem? A Historical Perspective (pages 1–32)

      Paul Guyer

  3. Part II: Conceptions of Ethical Content

    1. Chapter 2

      Narrative and the Ethical Life (pages 33–62)

      Noël Carroll

    2. Chapter 3

      A Nation of Madame Bovarys: On the Possibility and Desirability of Moral Improvement through Fiction (pages 63–94)

      Joshua Landy

    3. Chapter 4

      Empathy, Expression, and What Artworks Have to Teach (pages 95–122)

      Mitchell Green

  4. Part III: Literature and Moral Responsibility

    1. Chapter 5

      “Solid Objects,” Solid Objections: On Virginia Woolf and Philosophy (pages 123–143)

      Paisley Livingston

    2. Chapter 6

      Disgrace: Bernard Williams and J. M. Coetzee (pages 144–162)

      Catherine Wilson

    3. Chapter 7

      Facing Death Together: Camus's The Plague (pages 163–183)

      Robert C. Solomon

  5. Part IV: Visual Art, Artifacts, and the Ethical Response

    1. Chapter 8

      Staying in Touch (pages 185–210)

      Carolyn Korsmeyer

    2. Chapter 9

      Susan Sontag, Diane Arbus, and the Ethical Dimensions of Photography (pages 211–228)

      David Davies

    3. Chapter 10

      Ethical Judgments in Museums (pages 229–242)

      Ivan Gaskell

  6. Part V: Music and Moral Relations

    1. Chapter 11

      Così's Canon Quartet (pages 243–258)

      Stephen Davies

    2. Chapter 12

      Jazz Improvisation and Ethical Interaction: A Sketch of the Connections (pages 259–285)

      Garry L. Hagberg

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      Index (pages 286–292)

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