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OverviewEver since Plato expelled the poets from his ideal state, the ethics of art has had to confront philosophy's denial of art's morality. In Art before the Law, Ruth Ronen proposes a new outlook on the ethics of art by arguing that art insists on this tradition of denial, affirming its singular ethics through negativity. Ronen treats the mechanism of negation as the basis for the relationship between art and ethics. She shows how, through moves of denial, resistance, and denouncement, art exploits its negative relation to morality. While deception, fiction, and transgression allegedly locate art outside morality and ethics, Ronen argues they enable art to reveal the significance of the moral law, its origins, and the idea of the good. By employing the thought of Freud and Lacan, Ronen reconsiders the aesthetic tradition from Plato through Kant and later philosophers of art in order to establish an ethics of art. An interdisciplinary study, Art before the Law is sure to be of interest both to academic philosophers and to those interested in psychoanalytic theory and practice. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Ruth RonenPublisher: University of Toronto Press Imprint: University of Toronto Press Dimensions: Width: 16.30cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 23.60cm Weight: 0.440kg ISBN: 9781442647886ISBN 10: 1442647884 Pages: 200 Publication Date: 04 April 2014 Audience: Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , Professional & Vocational , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsArt before the Law is work of rigorous, original, and trenchant thought which engages with a broad sweep of texts, bringing exciting interpretations of classic works of psychoanalysis, philosophy, and literature. - Dominique Hecq, Department of Media and Communication, Swinburne University of Technology There is much to prize and admire in Art before the Law. Ruth Ronen's arguments are clear and precise, her scholarship is sound and up to date, and her thesis is ground-breaking. - Alenka Zupancic, Professor of Philosophy and Psychoanalysis, European Graduate School Author InformationRuth Ronen is a professor in the Department of Philosophy at Tel Aviv University. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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