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Ethics and the arts
Abstract
This book proposes that the highest expression of ethics is an aesthetic. It suggests that the quintessential performance of any field of practice is an art that captures an ethic beyond any literal statement of values. This is toadvocate for a shift in emphasis,away from current juridical approaches to ethics (ethicalcodes or regulation), toward ethics as an aesthetic practice—away from ethics as a minimal requirement, toward ethics as an aspiration. The book explores the relationship between art and ethics: a subject that has fascinated philosophers from ancient Greece to the present. It explores this relationship in all the arts: literature, the visual arts, film, the performing arts, and music. It also examines current issues raised by "hybrid" artists who are working at the ambiguous intersections between art, bioart and bioethics and challenging ethical limits in working with living materials. In considering these issues the book investigates the potential for art and ethics to be mutually challenged and changed in this meeting. The book is aimed at artists and students of the arts, who may be interested in approaching ethics and the arts in a new way. It is also aimed at students and teachers of ethics and philosophy, as well as those working in bioethics and the health professions. It will have appeal to the "general educated reader" as being current, of considerable interest, and offering a perspective on ethics that goes beyond a professional context to include questions about how one approaches ethics in one's own life and practices.
Details | Table of Contents
ethics and the arts
pp.1-6
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-8816-8_1learning to read with Emma Bovary
pp.9-19
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-8816-8_2the good of film experience
pp.57-66
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-8816-8_6the ethics and aesthetics of documentary
pp.79-87
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-8816-8_8contemporary indigenous dance, loss and cultural intuition
pp.99-112
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-8816-8_10pp.113-124
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-8816-8_11face-to-face and disturbing the fabric of the sensible
pp.125-135
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-8816-8_12an enigmatic quality
pp.137-149
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-8816-8_13enacting presence
pp.151-163
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-8816-8_14a critical review of the new moralisms
pp.167-178
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-8816-8_15bioethics and bioart
pp.191-200
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-8816-8_17an artist's perspective
pp.201-210
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-8816-8_18pp.213-224
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-8816-8_19quest myths, metaphors, and medical progress
pp.225-233
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-8816-8_20situated ethics
pp.235-246
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-8816-8_21Publication details
Publisher: Springer
Place: Dordrecht
Year: 2014
Pages: 273
ISBN (hardback): 978-94-017-8815-1
ISBN (digital): 978-94-017-8816-8
Full citation:
Macneill Paul (2014) Ethics and the arts. Dordrecht, Springer.