Art and Ethical Criticism

Foreword (Garry L. Hagberg, University of East Anglia).

Part I: Historical Foundations.

1. Is Ethical Criticism a Problem? A Historical Perspective (Paul Guyer, University of Pennsylvania).

Part II: Conceptions of Ethical Content.

2. Narrative and the Ethical Life (Noël Carroll, Temple University).

3. A Nation of Madame Bovarys: On the Possibility and Desirability of Moral Improvement through Fiction (Joshua Landy, Stanford University).

4. Empathy, Expression, and What Artworks Have to Teach (Mitchell Green, University of Virginia).

Part III: Literature and Moral Responsibility.

5. “Solid Objects,” Solid Objections: On Virginia Woolf and Philosophy (Paisley Livingston, Lingnan University).

6. Disgrace: Bernard Williams and J. M. Coetzee (Catherine Wilson, City University of New York).

7. Facing Death Together: Camus’s The Plague (Robert C. Solomon).

Part IV: Visual Art, Artifacts, and the Ethical Response.

8. Staying in Touch (Carolyn Korsmeyer, University at Buffalo, State University of New York).

9. Susan Sontag, Diane Arbus, and the Ethical Dimensions of Photography (David Davies, McGill University).

10. Ethical Judgments in Museums (Ivan Gaskell, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University).

Part V: Music and Moral Relations.

11. Così’s Canon Quartet (Stephen Davies, University of Auckland).

12. Jazz Improvisation and Ethical Interaction: A Sketch of the Connections (Garry L. Hagberg, University of East Anglia).

Index.