Aesthetics and Ethics Essays at the Intersection

Name: Aesthetics and Ethics Essays at the Intersection
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ISBN: 9780521788052

ISBN-10: 0521788056

ISBN-13: 9780521788052

Edition: 2001

Authors: Jerrold Levinson, Ivan Gaskell, Salim Kemal

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Description:

This collection of new essays deals with charged issues of practical importance - art and morality, the ethics of taste and censorship. The work considers questions, such as whether morally deficient art should be shunned or even censored.

Book details

List price: $41.99
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 3/12/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 340
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



Acknowledgements


List of contributors



Introduction: aesthetics and ethics




Three versions of objectivity: moral, aesthetic, and scientific




Aesthetic value, moral value, and the ambitions of naturalism




About consistency in one's personal aesthetics




Art, narrative, and moral understanding




Realism of character and the value of fiction




The ethical criticism of art




How bad can good art be?




Beauty and evil: the case of Leni Riefenstahl's Triumph of the Will




The naked truth




Aesthetic derogation: hate speech, pornography, and the aesthetic contexts



Bibliography


Index of names and titles