Art and Morality - Essays in the Spirit of George Santayana

Considers the tension between art and morality in literature, artistic performance, economics, statecraft, and human rights; in religion, drama, sculpture, philosophical methodology, biography, and attitudes toward mortality; in the work of Gotthold Lessing, Lewis Carroll, Charles Peirce, Leo Tolstoy, William James, Jean-Paul Sartre, Monroe Beardsley, and George Santayana.

About the author

Morris Grossman (Author)

Morris Grossman (1922-2012) was Professor Emeritus in the Department of Philosophy, Fairfield University (Connecticut). He was a founding member of the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy and a committed supporter of the Santayana Edition.

Martin A. Coleman (Author)

Martin A. Coleman is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Indiana University-Purdue

University Indianapolis and director and editor of the Santayana Edition.

Summary

Presents the guiding theme that is the importance of preserving the tension between that which may be unified and that which is disorganized, random, and miscellaneous. This book examines this theme in literature, artistic performance, economics, statecraft, and human rights.

Product details

• Authors: Martin A Coleman, Martin A. Coleman, Morris Grossman, Morris Coleman Grossman, Morris/ Coleman Grossman
• Assisted by: Martin A. Coleman (Editor)
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.05.2014
• EAN: 9780823257225
• ISBN: 978-0-8232-5722-5
• No. of pages: 336
• Series: American Philosophy; American Philosophy
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works