(Ebook) Art and Morality (International Library of Philosophy) by José Luis Bermúdez, Sebastian Gardner ISBN 9780203454763, 9780415192521, 0415192528, 0203454766

(Ebook) Art and Morality (International Library of Philosophy) by José Luis Bermúdez, Sebastian Gardner ISBN 9780203454763, 9780415192521, 0415192528, 0203454766

Art and Morality is a collection of groundbreaking new papers on the theme of aesthetics and ethics, and the link between the two subjects. A group of world-class contributors tackle the important question 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 the 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; and the connections between artistic and moral issues elaborated in the writings of central figures in modern philosophy such as Kant, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche.