Between Ethics and Aesthetics

Stephanie.Geary

Description

This forum of current discussions of ethics and aesthetics addresses a cross-section of disciplines including literary theory, philosophy, women's studies, postcolonial theory, art history, Holocaust studies, theology, and others. Contributors, ranging from philosophers and literary critics to practicing artists and art curators, answer such questions as: In the age of the collapse of metaphysics, what is the relation between philosophical reflection and art? If we question the privilege accorded to the aesthetic, can ethics alone offer a solution to the crisis of representation? Is it possible and ethically viable to represent the other in speech and image? What happens at the conjunction of aesthetics and politics? Can one speak of aesthetic configurations of the space of community? Are the concepts of ethics and aesthetics gendered and repressive of sexual difference? Considering the many works that consider either ethics or aesthetics almost exclusively within the confines of particular disciplines, this collection crosses the boundaries and continues the debate outside the rigid parameters of specialized discourses.

Acknowledgments

List of Illustrations

Introduction:
Dorota Glowacka and Stephen Boos

Part I. Rethinking Ethics and Aesthetics: Between Philosophy and Art

1. Rethinking the Aesthetic: Kant, Schiller, and Hegel
Stephen Boos

2. Looking at Hegel's Antigone through Irigaray's Speculum/
Tina Chanter

3. Linking onto Disinterestedness, or the Moral Law in Kant's Critique of Judgment
Rodolphe Gasché

4. Gesture and Commentary
Jean-François Lyotard

Part II. Aesthetics and the Question of the Other

5. Levinas and the Ethics of Imagining
Richard Kearney

6. Disappearing Traces: Emmanuel Levinas, Ida Fink's Literary Testimony, and Holocaust Art
Dorota Glowacka

7. Poetry, Theology, and Ethics: A Study in Paul Célan
Martin Rumscheidt

8. Between Ethics and Anguish: Feminist Ethics, Feminist Aesthetics, and Representations of Infanticide in "The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point" and Beloved
Marjorie Stone

Part III. Aesthetics and Politics

9. Feminine Writing, Metaphor, and Myth
Drucilla Cornell

10. Aesthetics and Politics
Terry Eagleton

11. An Ethics of the Name: Rethinking Globalization
Victor Li

12. The Social Figure of Art: Heidegger and Adorno on the Paradoxical Autonomy of Artworks
Krzysztof Ziarek

13. Politics, Aesthetics. and Ethics in Joseph Brodsky's Poem On the Death of Zhukov
David MacFadyen

Part IV. Toward an Ethical Art Practice?

14. Beauty and the Beast
Alex Colville

15. The Banal Profound and the Profoundly Banal: Andy Warhol
Elizabeth Edwards

16. Short Circuit: The Story of an Exhibition that Provoked Unforeseen Consequences
Susan Gibson Garvey

17. Other Tongues: Language and Hybridity in Recent Canadian Video Art
Marusya Bociurkiw

Contributors

Sujets

• Philosophie
• Esthétique et philosophie de l'art

Informations

• Publié par: State University of New York Press
• Date de parution: 01 février 2012
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780791489499
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 5 Mo

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CROSSING THE B O U N D A R I E S

edited by dorota glowacka stephen boos

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BETWEEN ETHICS AND AESTHETICS

SUNY series in Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art Mary C. Rawlinson, Editor

BETWEEN ETHICS AND AESTHETICS Crossing the Boundaries

Edited By

Dorota Glowacka and Stephen Boos

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Between ethics and aesthetics : crossing the boundaries / edited by Dorota Glowacka and Stephen Boos. p. cm.—(SUNY series in aesthetics and the philosophy of art) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-7914-5195-X (alk. paper)—ISBN 0-7914-5196-8 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Aesthetics. 2. Ethics. 3. Art—Moral and ethical aspects. I. Glowacka, Dorota, 1960– II. Boos, Stephen, 1953– III. Series.

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Acknowledgments

List of Illustrations

C O N T E N T S

Introduction Dorota Glowacka and Stephen Boos

PART I Rethinking Ethics and Aesthetics: Between Philosophy and Art

Chapter 1: Rethinking the Aesthetic: Kant, Schiller, and Hegel Stephen Boos

Chapter 2: Looking at Hegel’s Antigone through Irigaray’s Speculum Tina Chanter

Chapter 3: Linking Onto Disinterestedness, or the Moral Law in Kant’sCritique of Judgment Rodolphe Gasché

Chapter 4: Gesture and Commentary Jean-François Lyotard

PART II

Aesthetics and the Question of the Other

Chapter 5: Levinas and the Ethics of Imagining Richard Kearney

Chapter 6: Disappearing Traces: Emmanuel Levinas, Ida Fink’s Literary Testimony, and Holocaust Art Dorota Glowacka

Chapter 7: Poetry, Theology, and Ethics: A Study in Paul Célan Martin Rumscheidt

Chapter 8: Between Ethics and Anguish: Feminist Ethics, Feminist Aesthetics, and Representations of Infanticide in “The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim’s Point” andBeloved Marjorie Stone

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PART III

Aesthetics and Politics

Chapter 9: Feminine Writing, Metaphor, and Myth Drucilla Cornell

Chapter 10: Aesthetics and Politics Terry Eagleton

Chapter 11: An Ethics of the Name: Rethinking Globalization Victor Li

Chapter 12: The Social Figure of Art: Paradoxical Autonomy of Artworks Krzysztof Ziarek

Heidegger and Adorno on the

Chapter 13: Politics, Aesthetics, and Ethics in Joseph Brodsky’s Poem On the Death of Zhukov David MacFadyen

PART IV

Toward an Ethical Art Practice?

Chapter 14: Beauty and the Beast Alex Colville

Chapter 15: The Banal Profound and the Profoundly Banal: Andy Warhol Elizabeth Edwards

Chapter 16: Short Circuit: The Story of An Exhibition That Provoked Unforeseen Consequences Susan Gibson Garvey

Chapter 17: Other Tongues: Language and Hybridity in Recent Canadian Video Art Marusya Bociurkiw

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A C K N O W L E D G M E N T S

The editors of this book gratefully acknowledge the diligence, cooperation, and enthusiasm of all the contributors. We also want to thank our friends and colleagues at the University of King’s College for their unceasing encouragement and support. Special thanks to Dr. Colin Starnes, the President, and to the Research and Travel Committee of the University of King’s College Faculty, for financial support during the preparation of the manuscript. We are grateful to Joy Loder and Stephanie Boudreau for typing parts of the manuscript and to Sharon Brown and Pat Dixon for their help with the endless little tasks. Many thanks to Steve McCul- lough for his work on the index. We would also like to thank the editors at SUNY Press for their assistance and valuable editorial suggestions. We owe a great deal to our families, who have patiently endured our busy weekends. To Zbyszek, Maga, and Jerome and to Carmel, Alexander, and Daniel—our biggest thanks.

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