Featuring contributions from Matthew Kieran, Aaron Ridley, Roger Scruton and Mary Mothersill to name but a few, this collection of groundbreaking new papers on aesthetics and ethics, highlights the link between the two subjects. These leading figures tackle the important questions 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 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
the connections between artistic and moral issues elaborated in the writings of central figures in modern philosophy, such as Kant, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche.

The contributors share the view that progress in aesthetics requires detailed study of the practice of criticism. This volume will appeal to both the philosophical community and to researchers in areas such as literary theory, musicology and the theory of art.

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Information

Publisher

Routledge

Year

2020

ISBN

9781000143072

Edition

Topic

Philosophy

Subtopic

Philosophy History & Theory

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
List of contributors
Art and morality: an introduction
1 Ethics and aesthetics are —?
2 Art and moral education
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, expression and morality
Index