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Art and morality: essays in the spirit of George Santayana
Morris Grossman and Martin A. Coleman
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Frontmatter
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Acknowledgments (page xi)
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Editor's Preface (page xiii)
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Introduction (page 1)
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Part I. Art and Morality
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1 Art and Morality: On the Ambiguity of a Distinction (page 19)
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2 Morality Bound and Unbound: Some Parameters of Literary Art (page 27)
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3 Music, Modulation, and Metaphor (page 33)
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4 Performance and Obligation: Musical Variations on Art and Morality (page 57)
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5 A Mozartian Recognition Scene (page 85)
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6 A Note on Economy and Art (page 91)
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7 An Aesthetic Glance at the Constitution: Style, Intention, Performance (page 97)
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8 Human Rights and Artistic Appreciations (page 107)
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Part II. Artistic Philosophers and Philosophical Artists
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9 Interpreting Peirce (page 117)
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10 On Ruf's The Creation of Chaos: William James and the Stylistic Making of a Disorderly World (page 127)
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11 How Sartre Must Be Read: An Examination of a Philosophic Method (page 133)
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12 On Beardsley's "An Aesthetic Definition of Art (page 145)
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13 Lessing as Philosophical Dramatist: On Nathan the Wise (page 161)
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14 Lewis Carroll: Pedophile and/or Platonist? (page 177)
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15 Art and Death: A Sermon in the Form of an Essay (page 191)
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16 Brancusi: Some Changing and Changeless Perspectices (page 199)
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Part III. Santayana
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17 Drama and Dialectic: Ways of Philosophizing (page 211)
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18 Ontology and Morality: Santayana on the "Really Real" (page 229)
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19 Spirited Spirituality (page 239)
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20 Interpreting Interpretations (page 249)
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21 Santayana's Aesthetics (page 263)
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22 Santayana's The Last Puritan (page 267)
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23 Santayana in California: The Environment, Transcendentalism, and Nature (page 275)
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24 Ultimate Santayana (page 281)
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Notes (page 295)
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Index (page 313)
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Published: 2014
Publisher: Fordham University Press
- 9780823257225 (hardcover)
- 9780823257232 (paper)
- 9780823257959 (ebook)