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Art and morality : essays in the spirit of George Santayana
- Title
- Art and morality : essays in the spirit of George Santayana / Morris Grossman ; edited by Martin A. Coleman.
- Author
- Grossman, Morris, 1922-2012
- Publication
- New York : Fordham University Press, 2014.
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- Additional Authors
- Coleman, Martin A.
- Description
- xiii, 315 pages; 23 cm.
- 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"--
- "Considers the tension between art and morality in literature, artistic performance, economics, statecraft, and human rights; in religion, drama, sculpture, philosophical methodology, biography, and attitudes toward mortality; in the work of Gotthold Lessing, Lewis Carroll, Charles Peirce, Leo Tolstoy, William James, Jean-Paul Sartre, Monroe Beardsley, and George Santayana"--
- Series Statement
- American philosophy
- Uniform Title
- Essays. Selections
- American philosophy series.
- Alternative Title
- Essays.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN
- 9780823257225 (hardback)
- 0823257223 (hardback)
- 9780823257232 (paper)
- 0823257231 (paper)
- LCCN
- 2013046184
- OCLC
- ocn864096042
- 864096042
- SCSB-9624377
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries