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This forum of current discussions of ethics and aesthetics addresses a cross-section
of disciplines including literary theory, philosophy, women’s studies, postcolonial the-
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ory, art history, Holocaust studies, theology, and others.Contributors, ranging from
philosophers and literary critics to practicing artists and art curators, answer such e
questions as:In the age of the collapse of metaphysics, what is the relation between t
philosophical reflection and art? If we question the privilege accorded to the aes- w
thetic, can ethics alone offer a solution to the crisis of representation? Is it possible
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and ethically viable to represent the other in speech and image? What happens at
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the conjunction of aesthetics and politics? Can one speak of aesthetic configurations
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of the space of community? Are the concepts of ethics and aesthetics gendered and
repressive of sexual difference? Considering the many works that consider either aesthetics
ethics or aesthetics almost exclusively within the confines of particular disciplines, e
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“This collection gives fresh and exciting readings of various historical figures and c
insights into contemporary ethical issues.The concern for the connection between s
aesthetics and ethics is one of the most important theoretical issues in contemporary
theoretical debates.As Glowacka and Boos indicate, a pressing concern for contem- a CROSSING THE
porary theory and representation or artistic practice is how to represent or present the n
other without doing violence.The editors have put the collection together in a way that
it speaks to many of the issues at the center of debates over representing otherness.” d B O U N D A R I E S
— Kelly Oliver, State University of New York at Stony Brook
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At the University of King’s College, Dorota Glowacka is Associate Professor of e
Humanities and Social Sciences and Stephen Boos is Assistant Professor of s
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A volume in the SUNY series in Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art
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Mary C.Rawlinson, editor
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BETWEEN ETHICS
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AESTHETICS
SUNY series in Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art
Mary C.Rawlinson,Editor
BETWEEN ETHICS
AND
AESTHETICS
Crossing the Boundaries
Edited By
Dorota Glowacka
and
Stephen Boos
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Between ethics and aesthetics :crossing the boundaries / edited by Dorota
Glowacka and Stephen Boos.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-7914-5195-X (alk.paper)—ISBN 0-7914-5196-8 (pbk.:alk.
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1. Aesthetics. 2. Ethics. 3. Art—Moral and ethical aspects. I.
Glowacka,Dorota,1960– II.Boos,Stephen,1953– III.Series.
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CONTENTS
Acknowledgments vii
List ofIllustrations ix
Introduction 1
Dorota Glowacka and Stephen Boos
PART I Rethinking Ethics and Aesthetics:
Between Philosophy and Art 13
Chapter 1: Rethinking the Aesthetic: Kant,Schiller,and Hegel 15
Stephen Boos
Chapter 2: Looking at Hegel’s Antigone through Irigaray’s Speculum 29
Tina Chanter
Chapter 3: Linking Onto Disinterestedness,or the Moral Law in
Kant’s Critique ofJudgment 49
Rodolphe Gasché
Chapter 4: Gesture and Commentary 73
Jean-François Lyotard
PART II Aesthetics and the Question of the Other 83
Chapter 5: Levinas and the Ethics of Imagining 85
Richard Kearney
Chapter 6: Disappearing Traces:Emmanuel Levinas,Ida Fink’s
Literary Testimony,and Holocaust Art 97
Dorota Glowacka
Chapter 7: Poetry,Theology,and Ethics: A Study in Paul Célan 117
Martin Rumscheidt
Chapter 8: Between Ethics and Anguish: Feminist Ethics,Feminist
Aesthetics,and Representations of Infanticide in “The Runaway
Slave at Pilgrim’s Point”and Beloved 131
Marjorie Stone
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PART III Aesthetics and Politics 159
Chapter 9: Feminine Writing,Metaphor,and Myth 161
Drucilla Cornell
Chapter 10: Aesthetics and Politics 187
Terry Eagleton
Chapter 11: An Ethics of the Name: Rethinking Globalization 195
Victor Li
Chapter 12: The Social Figure of Art: Heidegger and Adorno on the
Paradoxical Autonomy of Artworks 219
KrzysztofZiarek
Chapter 13: Politics,Aesthetics,and Ethics in Joseph Brodsky’s Poem
On the Death ofZhukov 239
David MacFadyen
PART IV Toward an Ethical Art Practice? 249
Chapter 14: Beauty and the Beast 251
Alex Colville
Chapter 15: The Banal Profound and the Profoundly Banal:
Andy Warhol 255
Elizabeth Edwards
Chapter 16: Short Circuit: The Story of An Exhibition That
Provoked Unforeseen Consequences 275
Susan Gibson Garvey
Chapter 17: Other Tongues: Language and Hybridity in Recent
Canadian Video Art 293
Marusya Bociurkiw
Contributors 301
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
The editors of this book gratefully acknowledge the diligence,cooperation,and
enthusiasm of all the contributors.
We also want to thank our friends and colleagues at the University of
King’s College for their unceasing encouragement and support.Special thanks
to Dr.Colin Starnes,the President,and to the Research and Travel Committee
of the University of King’s College Faculty,for financial support during the
preparation of the manuscript.We are grateful to Joy Loder and Stephanie
Boudreau for typing parts of the manuscript and to Sharon Brown and Pat
Dixon for their help with the endless little tasks.Many thanks to Steve McCul-
lough for his work on the index.We would also like to thank the editors at
SUNY Press for their assistance and valuable editorial suggestions.
We owe a great deal to our families,who have patiently endured our busy
weekends. To Zbyszek, Maga, and Jerome and to Carmel, Alexander, and
Daniel—our biggest thanks.
