Art before the law / Ruth Ronen.

Author/creator Ronen, Ruth author.
Format Book
PublicationToronto : University of Toronto Press, [2014]
Copyright Date©2014
Description188 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subjects
Art and morals.

Contents Introduction: By way of the law -- By way of negation -- By way of beauty -- By way of truth -- By way of deception / written with Efrat Biberman -- By way of prohibition -- Conclusion.
Abstract "Ever since Plato expelled the poets from his ideal state, the ethics of art has had to confront philosophy's denial of art's morality. In Art before the Law, Ruth Ronen proposes a new outlook on the ethics of art by arguing that art insists on this tradition of denial, affirming its singular ethics through negativity. Ronen treats the mechanism of negation as the basis for the relationship between art and ethics. She shows how, through moves of denial, resistance, and denouncement, art exploits its negative relation to morality. While deception, fiction, and transgression allegedly locate art outside morality and ethics, Ronen argues they enable art to reveal the significance of the moral law, its origins, and the idea of the good. By employing the thought of Freud and Lacan, Ronen reconsiders the aesthetic tradition from Plato through Kant and later philosophers of art in order to establish an ethics of art. An interdisciplinary study, Art before the Law is sure to be of interest both to academic philosophers and to those interested in psychoanalytic theory and practice."--Publisher's website.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 179-184) and index.
LCCN 2014415189
ISBN9781442647886 (bound)
ISBN1442647884 (bound)

Availability

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Joyner General Stacks N72 .E8 R66 2014 ✔ Available Place Hold