Aesthetics And Ethics. Essays At The Intersection

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publisher Place: Uk
Publisher Year: 1998
Edition: First Edition

Description: 328 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout. The only exception is a small inscription to the inside page.

Publishers Description: This major collection of essays stands at the border of aesthetics and ethics and deals with charged issues of practical import: art and morality, the ethics of taste, and censorship. As such its potential interest is by no means confined to professional philosophers; it should also appeal to art historians and critics, literary theorists, and students of film. Prominent philosophers in both aesthetics and ethics tackle a wide array of issues. Some of the questions explored in the volume include: Can art be morally enlightening and, if so, how If a work of art is morally better does that make it better as art Is morally deficient art to be shunned, or even censored Do subjects of artworks have rights as to how they are represented Do artists have duties as artists and duties as human beings, and if so, to whom How much tension is there between the demands of art and the demands of life

ISBN: 9780521788052