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Informationen zum Autor Garry Hagberg is the James H. Ottaway Jr. Professor of Aesthetics and Philosophy at Bard College. He is the author of Art as Language: Wittgenstein, Meaning, and Aesthetic Theory and of Meaning and Interpretation: Wittgenstein, Henry James and Literary Knowledge. Klappentext Here is a timely and philosophically significant contribution to modern aesthetics featuring some of the best contemporary work in philosophical studies of literature, moral beliefs, and thinking in art. This multiple-author anthology consistently reflects the importance of a moral life of engagement with works of art and their particular insights. Zusammenfassung Here is a timely and philosophically significant contribution to modern aesthetics featuring some of the best contemporary work in philosophical studies of literature! moral beliefs! and thinking in art. This multiple-author anthology consistently reflects the importance of a moral life of engagement with works of art and their particular insights. Inhaltsverzeichnis TABLE OF CONTENTS..Contents.Notes on Contributors.Foreword.Garry L. Hagberg.Part I: Historical Foundations.1 Is Ethical Criticism a Problem? A Historical Perspective.Paul Guyer.Part II: Conceptions of Ethical Content.2 Narrative and the Ethical Life.Noël Carroll.3 A Nation of Madame Bovarys: On the Possibility and Desirability of.Moral Improvement through Fiction.Joshua Landy.4 Empathy, Expression, and What Artworks Have to Teach.Mitchell Green.Part III: Literature and Moral Responsibility.5 "Solid Objects," Solid Objections: On Virginia Woolf and Philosophy.Paisley Livingston.6 Disgrace: Bernard Williams and J. M. Coetzee.Catherine Wilson.7 Facing Death Together: Camus's The Plague.Robert C. Solomon.Part IV: Visual Art, Artifacts, and the Ethical Response.8 Staying in Touch.Carolyn Korsmeyer.9 Susan Sontag, Diane Arbus, and the Ethical Dimensions of Photography.David Davies.10 Ethical Judgments in Museums.Ivan Gaskell.Part V: Music and Moral Relations.11 Così's Canon Quartet.Stephen Davies.12 Jazz Improvisation and Ethical Interaction: A Sketch of the Connections.Garry L. Hagberg.Index...
