On Good and Evil and the Grey Zone / / Alex Danchev.
Mixes art, thought, politics and ethics to explore the terrors of the modern age, from Auschwitz to Abu GhraibHow can works of the imagination help us to understand good and evil in the modern world? In this new collection of essays, Alex Danchev treats the artist as a crucial moral witness of our t...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022] ©2015 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (192 p.) :; 20 B/W illustrations |
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| Summary: | Mixes art, thought, politics and ethics to explore the terrors of the modern age, from Auschwitz to Abu GhraibHow can works of the imagination help us to understand good and evil in the modern world? In this new collection of essays, Alex Danchev treats the artist as a crucial moral witness of our troubled times, and puts art to work in the service of political and ethical inquiry. He takes inspiration from Seamus Heaney's dictum: 'the imaginative transformation of human life is the means by which we can most truly grasp and comprehend it'. This is a book of blasphemers, world menders, troublemakers, torturers and turbulent priests of every persuasion.A distinctive mix of art and politics, addressing a tremendous range of ethical, artistic and political questionsEngages with fundamental, and controversial, issues of international life: terror, torture, secrecy, privacy, memory and identity |
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| Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
| ISBN: | 9781474410328 9783110780451 |
| DOI: | 10.1515/9781474410328 |
| Access: | restricted access |
| Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
| Statement of Responsibility: | Alex Danchev. |