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Through a series of essays, Art and Ethical Criticism explores the complex relationship between the arts and morality. Reflects the importance of a moral life of engagement with works of art Forms part of the prestigious New Directions in Aesthetics series, which confronts the most intriguing problems in aesthetics and the philosophy of art today

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Hagberg draws together some of the top thinkers in aesthetics to consider the cross-impacts between these philosophical disciplines. The selections are widely representative of approaches to ethical criticism of artworks, and the ethical/aesthetic dimensions of the literary, visual, and auditory arts. (CHOICE) Garry Hagberg's new anthology Art and Ethical Criticism consists of twelve new essays-ten by philosophers, one each by an art historian and a professor of French-together with a short foreword. The overall argument that emerges from these essays is that the first, broader topic (the powers and interest of art for human subjects) is more important than the second, narrower topic (the relation between artistic and moral value), and the essays are strongest exactly when they illuminate the powers and interest of art, precisely by not separating the artistic and ethical features of a work sharply from each other. (Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews)

Hagberg draws together some of the top thinkers in aesthetics to consider the cross-impacts between these philosophical disciplines. The selections are widely representative of approaches to ethical criticism of artworks, and the ethical/aesthetic dimensions of the literary, visual, and auditory arts. (CHOICE) Garry Hagberg's new anthology Art and Ethical Criticism consists of twelve new essays-ten by philosophers, one each by an art historian and a professor of French-together with a short foreword. The overall argument that emerges from these essays is that the first, broader topic (the powers and interest of art for human subjects) is more important than the second, narrower topic (the relation between artistic and moral value), and the essays are strongest exactly when they illuminate the powers and interest of art, precisely by not separating the artistic and ethical features of a work sharply from each other. (Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews)

Hagberg draws together some of the top thinkers in aestheticsto consider the cross-impacts between these philosophicaldisciplines. The selections are widely representative of approachesto ethical criticism of artworks, and the ethical/aestheticdimensions of the literary, visual, and auditory arts. (CHOICE) Garry Hagberg's new anthology Art and Ethical Criticismconsists of twelve new essays ten by philosophers, one eachby an art historian and a professor of French together with ashort foreword. The overall argument that emerges from these essaysis that the first, broader topic (the powers and interest of artfor human subjects) is more important than the second, narrowertopic (the relation between artistic and moral value), and theessays are strongest exactly when they illuminate the powers andinterest of art, precisely by not separating the artistic andethical features of a work sharply from each other. (Notre DamePhilosophical Reviews)

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Garry L. Hagberg is the James H. Ottaway Professor of Philosophy and Aesthetics at Bard College, and in recent years has held a Chair in the School of Philosophy at the University of East Anglia and a visiting fellowship at Cambridge University. He has published and lectured widely; his books include Describing Ourselves: Wittgenstein and Autobiographical Consciousness, Art as Language, and Meaning and Interpretation. He is co-editor of The Blackwell Companion to the Philosophy of Literature (with Walter Jost) and of the journal Philosophy and Literature.

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