Art, Emotion and Ethics

Zusatztext there is much here to admire. Among the strengths of the work are the clarity and sophistication of Gaut's arguments...I consider this an important book that deserves to be widely read and discussed. Informationen zum Autor Berys Gaut is Reader in Philosophy at the University of St. Andrews. Klappentext Can a good work of art be evil? Art, Emotion and Ethis explores this issue, arguing that artworks are always aesthetically flawed if they have a moral defect that is aesthetically relevant. Berys Gaut shows how moral goodness is itself a kind of beauty, that artworks can teach us about morality and that this is under certain conditions an aesthetic merit in them, and that our emotional responses to works of art are properly guided in part by moral considerations. Characterised by its clarity and sustained argument, this book will be of interest to anyone who wants to understand the relation of art to morality. Zusammenfassung Can a good work of art be evil? This book explores this issue, arguing that artworks are always aesthetically flawed if they have a moral defect that is aesthetically relevant. It is of interest to anyone who wants to understand the relation of art to morality. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations 1: The Long Debate 2: Aesthetics and Ethics: Basic Concepts 3: A Conceptual Map 4: Autonomism 5: Artistic and Critical Practices 6: Questions of Character 7: The Cognitive Argument: The Epistemic Claim 8: The Cognitive Argument: The Aesthetic Claim 9: Emotion and Imagination 10: The Merited Response Argument Bibliography Index

Product details

• Authors: Berys Gaut, Berys (University of St Andrews) Gaut, Gaut Berys
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 24.05.2007
• EAN: 9780199263219
• ISBN: 978-0-19-926321-9
• No. of pages: 280
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; Theory of art, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, PHILOSOPHY / Aesthetics, ART / Criticism & Theory, Ethics & moral philosophy, Philosophy: aesthetics, Literature: history & criticism, Ethics and moral philosophy, Literature: history and criticism