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Social Aesthetics and Moral Judgment: Pleasure, Reflection and Accountability book cover

1st Edition

Social Aesthetics and Moral Judgment Pleasure, Reflection and Accountability

Edited By Jennifer A. McMahon Copyright 2018
246 Pages
by Routledge

246 Pages 5 Color & 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

246 Pages 5 Color & 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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This edited collection sets forth a new understanding of aesthetic-moral judgment organized around three key concepts: pleasure, reflection, and accountability. The overarching theme is that art is not merely a representation or expression like any other, but that it promotes shared moral understanding and helps us engage in meaning-making. This volume offers an alternative to brain-centric and... Read more

Introduction: From Pleasures to Principles Jennifer A. McMahon

Part I: Aesthetic Elements: Pleasure, Preference, and Imagination

1. New Prospects for Aesthetic Hedonism Mohan Matthen

2. From Colour to Meaning in Contemporary Art Cynthia A. Freeland

3. Against Aesthetic Judgments Bence Nanay

4. Imagination Jennifer A. McMahon

Part II: Aesthetic Experience: Critique, Expression, and Reflection

5. Art, Exemplars and Consensus Keith Lehrer

6. Objectivity and Shared Experience: Art and Morality Garrett Cullity

7. Dancers and Soldiers Sharing the Dance Floor: Emotional Expression in Dance Nancy Sherman

8. Twofoldness, Threefoldness and Aesthetic Pluralism Paul Guyer

Part III: Aesthetic Judgment: Dissonance, Difference, and Diversity

9. Aesthetic Judgment and the Transcultural Apprehension of Material Things Ivan Gaskell

10. Cross-Cultural Aesthetics and Etiquette Elizabeth Burns Coleman

11. Emotional Engagement and Moral Evaluation: Exploring Cinematic Ethics Robert Sinnerbrink

12. Aesthetics and Communication Jane Kneller

Biography

Jennifer A. McMahon is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Adelaide, Australia. She is the author of Aesthetics and Material Beauty: Aesthetics Naturalized (2007) and Art and Ethics in a Material World: Kant’s Pragmatist Legacy (2014). She edited the inaugural issue of the Australasian Philosophical Review (March 2017) on 'The Pleasure of Art'.

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