Oliver Conolly and and Bashshar Haydar, ‘Literature, Knowledge, Value’, Philosophy and 31 (2007): 111-124 Literature Week 10. Ethical Criticism Does the ethical perspective of an artwork matter to its aesthetic value? Is an immoral artwork necessarily worse as art? As with cognitive value, moral value has traditionally been distinguished sharply from aesthetic value. More recently, philosophers have argued that a ethical character may influence its work’s aesthetic value in a variety of ways. We consider several different approaches to the issue. Seminar reading: Anne W. Eaton, 70 (2012): 281-92 Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism ‘Robust Immoralism’, Additional reading: Noël 36 (1996): 223-238 British Journal of Aesthetics Carroll, ‘Moderate Moralism’, Berys Gaut, Ethical Criticism of in Jerrold Levinson (ed.), Aesthetics and Ethics: Essays ‘The Art’, (Cambridge University Press 1998), 182-203 at the Intersection James Anderson and Jeffrey Dean, 38 British Journal of Aesthetics ‘Moderate Autonomism’, (1998): 150-166 and Evil: The Case of in Jerrold Triumph of the Will’, Mary Devereaux, ‘Beauty Leni Riefenstahl’s Levinson (ed.), (Cambridge University Press Aesthetics and Ethics: Essays at the Intersection 1998), 227-256
Oliver Conolly and Bashshar Haydar, ‘Literature, Knowledge, and Value’, Philosophy and Literature 31 (2007): 111-124 Week 10. Ethical Criticism Does the ethical perspective of an artwork matter to its aesthetic value? Is an immoral artwork necessarily worse as art? As with cognitive value, moral value has traditionally been distinguished sharply from aesthetic value. More recently, philosophers have argued that a work’s ethical character may influence its aesthetic value in a variety of ways. We consider several different approaches to the issue. Seminar reading: Anne W. Eaton, ‘Robust Immoralism’, Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 70 (2012): 281-92 Additional reading: Noël Carroll, ‘Moderate Moralism’, British Journal of Aesthetics 36 (1996): 223-238 Berys Gaut, ‘The Ethical Criticism of Art’, in Jerrold Levinson (ed.), Aesthetics and Ethics: Essays at the Intersection (Cambridge University Press 1998), 182-203 James Anderson and Jeffrey Dean, ‘Moderate Autonomism’, British Journal of Aesthetics 38 (1998): 150-166 Mary Devereaux, ‘Beauty and Evil: The Case of Leni Riefenstahl’s Triumph of the Will’, in Jerrold Levinson (ed.), Aesthetics and Ethics: Essays at the Intersection (Cambridge University Press 1998), 227-256
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