On good and evil and the grey zone /
Mixes art, thought, politics and ethics to explore the terrors of the modern age, from Auschwitz to Abu Ghraib. How can works of the imagination help us to understand good and evil in the modern world? In this new collection of essays, Alex Danchev treats the artist as a crucial moral witness of our...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
[2016]
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- "Good? But what is good? Ethics after Ikonnikov
- Our brothers' keeper : moral witness
- Angelus novus : the angel of history
- Infidels and miscreants : love and war in Afghanistan
- Trouble makers : Laura Poitras and the problem of dissent
- The silage of history : Anselm Kiefer and the Kieferworld
- Footfall : the moral economy of Reinhard Mucha
- Tony Blair's Vietnam : the Iraq War and the special relationship
- Accomplicity : Britain, torture and terror
- Mending the world : artists' manifestos
- The hallowed mentor : Cezanne by numbers
- The vacuity of evil : Rumsfeld in Washington.