@article{1477648,
      recid = {1477648},
      author = {Grossman, Morris,  and Coleman, Martin A.,  and Coleman,  Martin A., },
      title = {Art and Morality : Essays in the Spirit of George  Santayana /},
      pages = {1 online resource (336 p.)},
      abstract = {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.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1477648},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823257959},
}