Art and Morality : : Essays in the Spirit of George Santayana / / Morris Grossman, Martin A. Coleman.

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• VerfasserIn: Grossman, Morris,; Coleman, Martin A.,
• MitwirkendeR: Coleman, Martin A.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2014]; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Series: American Philosophy
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (336 p.)

The guiding theme of these essays by aesthetician, musician, and Santayana scholar Morris Grossman is the importance of preserving the tension between what can be unified and what is disorganized, random, and miscellaneous. Grossman described this as the tension between art and morality: Art arrests...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Editor’s Preface
• Introduction
• Part One. Art and Morality
• One. Art and Morality
• Two. Morality Bound and Unbound
• Three. Music, Modulation, and Metaphor
• Four. Performance and Obligation
• Five. A Mozartian Recognition Scene
• Six. A Note on Economy and Art
• Seven. An Aesthetic Glance at the Constitution
• Eight. Human Rights and Artistic Appreciations
• Part Two. Artistic Philosophers and Philosophical Artists
• Nine. Interpreting Peirce
• Ten. On Ruf’s The Creation of Chaos: William James and the Stylistic Making of a Disorderly World
• Eleven. How Sartre Must Be Read
• Twelve. On Beardsley’s “An Aesthetic Definition of Art”
• Thirteen. Lessing as Philosophical Dramatist
• Fourteen. Lewis Carroll
• Fifteen. Art and Death
• Sixteen. Brancusi
• Part Three. Santayana
• Seventeen. Drama and Dialectic
• Eighteen. Ontology and Morality
• Nineteen. Spirited Spirituality
• Twenty. Interpreting Interpretations
• Twenty- One. Santayana’s Aesthetics
• Twenty- Two. Santayana’s The Last Puritan
• Twenty- Three. Santayana in California
• Twenty- Four. Ultimate Santayana
• Notes
• Index