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"Art and Morality" is a collection of groundbreaking new papers on the theme of aesthetics and ethics, and the link between the two subjects. A group of world-class contributors tackle the important question that arise when one thinks about the moral dimensions of art and the aesthetic dimension of moral life.
The volume is a significant contribution to the philosophical literature, opening up unexplored questions and shedding new light on more traditional debates in aesthetics. The topics explored include the relation of aesthetic to ethical judgment; the relation of artistic experience to moral consciousness; the moral status of fiction; the concepts of sentimentality and decadence; the moral dimension of critical practice, pictorial art and music; the moral significance of tragedy; and the connections between artistic and moral issues elaborated in the writings of central figures in modern philosophy such as Kant, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche.
List of contents
Jose Luis Bermudez and Sebastian Gardner Art and morality an introduction 1. Ethics and aesthetics are - ? 2. Art and moral eduction 3. Forbidden knowledge: the challenge of immoralism 4. Make-believe morality and fictional worlds 5. Sentimentality 6. The concept of decadence 7. Critical conversions 8. Love in Wagner's Ring 9. Moral depth and pictorial art 10. Kant and the ideal of beauty 11. Schopenhauer on tragedy and value 12. Tragedy, morality and metaphysics 13. Nietzsche's artistic revaluation 14. Art, experssion and morality.
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José Luis Bermúdez, Sebastian Gardner
Summary
As the first book to focus on the theme of art and morality and the relation between the two subjects this presents a balanced and uniform collection of papers from a group of world class contributors.
