Garry Hagberg is the James H. Ottaway Jr. Professor of Aesthetics and Philosophy at Bard College. He is the author of Art as Language: Wittgenstein, Meaning, and Aesthetic Theory and of Meaning and Interpretation: Wittgenstein, Henry James and Literary Knowledge.

Here is a timely and philosophically significant contribution to modern aesthetics featuring some of the best contemporary work in philosophical studies of literature, moral beliefs, and thinking in art. This multiple-author anthology consistently reflects the importance of a moral life of engagement with works of art and their particular insights.

TABLE OF CONTENTS.
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Contents.
Notes on Contributors.
Foreword.
Garry L. Hagberg.
Part I: Historical Foundations.
1 Is Ethical Criticism a Problem? A Historical Perspective.
Paul Guyer.
Part II: Conceptions of Ethical Content.
2 Narrative and the Ethical Life.
Noël Carroll.
3 A Nation of Madame Bovarys: On the Possibility and Desirability of.
Moral Improvement through Fiction.
Joshua Landy.
4 Empathy, Expression, and What Artworks Have to Teach.
Mitchell Green.
Part III: Literature and Moral Responsibility.
5 "Solid Objects," Solid Objections: On Virginia Woolf and Philosophy.
Paisley Livingston.
6 Disgrace: Bernard Williams and J. M. Coetzee.
Catherine Wilson.
7 Facing Death Together: Camus's The Plague.
Robert C. Solomon.
Part IV: Visual Art, Artifacts, and the Ethical Response.
8 Staying in Touch.
Carolyn Korsmeyer.
9 Susan Sontag, Diane Arbus, and the Ethical Dimensions of Photography.
David Davies.
10 Ethical Judgments in Museums.
Ivan Gaskell.
Part V: Music and Moral Relations.
11 Così's Canon Quartet.
Stephen Davies.
12 Jazz Improvisation and Ethical Interaction: A Sketch of the Connections.
Garry L. Hagberg.
Index