Art and Morality : Essays in the Spirit of George Santayana / Morris Grossman, Martin A. Coleman.
Grossman, Morris, author.; Coleman, Martin A., author.; Coleman, Martin A., contributor.
2014
N72.E8 .G76 2014eb
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Art and Morality : Essays in the Spirit of George Santayana / Morris Grossman, Martin A. Coleman.
Author
Grossman, Morris, author.
ISBN
9780823257959
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823257959
Published
New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2014]
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©2014
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English
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In English.
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1 online resource (336 p.)
Item Number
10.1515/9780823257959 doi
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N72.E8 .G76 2014eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
700.1
Summary
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 a sense of change and yields moments of unguarded enjoyment and peace; but soon, shifting circumstances compel evaluation, decision, and action. According to Grossman, the best art preserves the tension between the aesthetic consummation of experience and the press of morality understood as the business of navigating conflicts, making choices, and meeting needs.This concern was intimately related to his reading of George Santayana. The best philosophy, like the best art, preserves the tension between what can be ordered and what resists assimilation, and Grossman read Santayana as exemplifying this virtue in his embrace of multiple perspectives. Other scholars have noted the multiplicity or irony in Santayana's work, but Grossman was unique in taking such a style to be a substantive part of Santayana's philosophizing.
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Coleman, Martin A., author.
Coleman, Martin A., contributor.
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American Philosophy
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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

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