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This volume is about how and whether art can be morally bad (or morally good). Politicians, media pundits, and others frequently complain that particular works of art are morally dangerous, or, sometimes, that particular works are morally edifying (the "great works" of literature, for example). But little attention is often given to the question of what makes art morally good in the first place. This comprehensive volume of forty-five new essays explores a wide variety of historical and theoretical perspectives, looking at different art forms and different problems.
Each section of the volume samples a mix of topics that have been widely discussed alongside those that have been less noticed by philosophers. What emerges is a sense of the great variety of different problems and approaches as well as some recurring and overlapping themes.
The essays in this volume put forth a deliberate effort to stretch beyond some of the debates and problems most familiar to Anglophone philosophers. Familiar topics and positions have been placed side by side in the volume with new and neglected ones, sometimes suggesting surprising connections and conflicts. The volume is divided into four sections: Historical Perspectives, Theoretical Approaches, Individual Arts, and Problems. Chapters in "Historical Perspectives" cover significant historical and cultural periods in which philosophical debates about ethics and art became salient, from ancient Greece and China to Japan, the Harlem Renaissance, and beyond. These chapters show the wide variety of different concrete practices that were associated with the idea of "art," as well as the great range of approaches to thinking about what constitutes an "ethical" concern. The section on "Theoretical Approaches" takes up questions about the relationship between moral and aesthetic evaluation, moral theories, and the familiar debate between "moralists," "autonomists," and others. The section on "Individual Arts" considers how moral questions arise in distinctive ways for different art forms, including traditional arts such as music, literature, and painting, and newer art forms such as video games. The final section, "Problems," takes up a variety of special ethical problems that arise in the arts, such as forgery, cultural appropriation, and moral learning.
Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction
James Harold
Part I: Historical Perspectives on Ethics and Art
Chapter 2: Ethics and the Arts in Early China
Eric L. Hutton
Chapter 3: Ancient Greek Philosophers on Art and Ethics: How Can Immoral Art be Ethically Beneficial?
Pierre Destrée
Chapter 4: Art and Ethics in Islam
Oliver Leaman
Chapter 5: Ethically-Grounded Nature of Japanese Aesthetic Sensibility
Yuriko Saito
Chapter 6: Art, Ethics, and Value in the Modern Aesthetic Tradition
Timothy M. Costelloe
Chapter 7: The Knowledge that Joins Ethics to Art in Yorùbá Culture
Barry Hallen
Chapter 8: Art and Ethics in India in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Nalini Bhushan and Arvind Krishna Mehrotra
Chapter 9: Art and Ethics: Formalism
Michalle Gal
Chapter 10: Harlem Renaissance: An Interpretation of Racialized Art and Ethics
Jacoby Adeshi Carter and Sheena Michele Mason
Chapter 11: Evolution of Art and Moral Concerns in New China: From Mao Zedong's Yenan Talks to Xi Jinping's Speech on Artistic Practice
Eva Kit Wah Man
Part II: Theoretical Approaches to Ethics and Art
Chapter 12: Meta-ethics and Meta-aesthetics
Alex King
Chapter 13: Distinguishing between Ethics and Aesthetics
Moonyoung Song
Chapter 14: Relativism and the Ethical Criticism of Art
Ted Nannicelli
Chapter 15: Kantian Approaches to Ethical Judgment of Artworks
Sandra Shapshay
Chapter 16: Consequentialist Approaches to Ethical Judgment of Artworks
Scott Woodcock
Chapter 17: Virtue Aesthetics, Art, and Ethics
Nancy E. Snow
Chapter 18: Feminism, Ethics, and Art
Amy Mullin
Chapter 19: Autonomism
Nils-Hennes Stear
Chapter 20: Moralism
Noël Carroll
Chapter 21: Immoralism and Contextualism
Daniel Jacobson
Chapter 22: Aestheticism
Becca Rothfeld
Part III: Ethical Issues in Individual Arts
Chapter 23: Painting
Elisabeth Schellekens
Chapter 24: Ethics and Literature
Peter Lamarque
Chapter 25: Film
Carl Plantinga
Chapter 26: Ethics and Music
Kathleen Higgins
Chapter 27: Some Moral Features of Theatrical Art
James R. Hamilton
Chapter 28: Dance Ethics
Aili Whalen
Chapter 29: Architecture
Saul Fisher
Chapter 30: Ethics and Video Games
Christopher Bartel
Chapter 31: Art and Pornography: Ethical Issues
A.W. Eaton
Chapter 32: Humor Ethics
Paul Butterfield
Chapter 33: Monuments and Memorials: Ethics Writ Large
Jeanette Bicknell, Jennifer Judkins, and Carolyn Korsmeyer
Chapter 34: Ethical Issues in Internet Culture and New Media
Anthony Cross
Part IV: Ethical Problems in the Arts
Chapter 35: Ethics of Artistic Authorship
Karen Gover
Chapter 36: Group Agency, Alienation, and Public Art
Mary Beth Willard
Chapter 37: Immoral Artists
Erich Hatala Matthes
Chapter 38: Cultural Appropriation
C. Thi Nguyen and Matthew Strohl
Chapter 39: Forgery
Darren Hudson Hick
Chapter 40: Art, Ethics, and Vandalism
Sondra Bacharach
Chapter 41: Censorship and Selective Support for the Arts
Brian Soucek
Chapter 42: Art, Race, and Racism
Adriana Clavel-Vázquez
Chapter 43: Representation, Identity, and Ethics in Art
Paul C. Taylor
Chapter 44: Ethics and Imagination
Joy Shim and Shen-yi Liao
Chapter 45: Moral Learning from Art
Eileen John
