PUBLIC TALK:
   Aesthetics/Ethics/Catastrophe
  - Public talk with Michael Levine
		
Fri, 09 Nov 2012 15:00 - SymbioticA Room 228, Level 2, School of Anatomy Physiology and Human Biology, UWA.
		
Michael Levine
There are two extreme positions traditionally  taken with respect to the
relationship between  art and morality;  one is autonomism,  or
aestheticism, which is the view that it is inappropriate  to apply
moral categories  to artworks,  and that only aesthetic  categories  are
relevant, while at the other end of the scale is moralism, the view that
aesthetic objects should be judged  solely with respect  to moral
standards. Both autonomism  and moralism  are problematic,  as they are
based on inadequate  conceptions  of art and aesthetic value. I examine
Leni Riefenstahl’s Triumph of the Will and Jacque Callot’s Miseries
of War both to illustrate the issue and to come to some conclusion about
it.

Michael Levine is professor of philosophy at the University of Western
Australia.  He is author of the following books:  Prospects for an
Ethics of Architecture, with Bill Taylor (2011), Doing Philosophy,
Watching Movies, with Damian Cox (2011), Politics Most Unusual:
Violence, Sovereignty and Democracy in the “War on Terror,” with
Damian Cox and Saul Newman (2009), Integrity and the Fragile Self, with
Damian Cox and Marguerite LaCaze (2003), and Pantheism: A non-theistic
concept of deity (1994).  Levine has also edited Racism in Mind, with
Tamas Pataki (2004), and The Analytic Freud:  Philosophy and
Psychoanalysis (2000).
		
URL: http://www.symbiotica.uwa.edu.au/activities/seminars
		
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  christopher.cobilis@uwa.edu.au
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Starts       : Fri, 09 Nov 2012 15:00
Ends         : Fri, 09 Nov 2012 16:30
		
Last Updated : Thu, 08 Nov 2012 08:31