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Words are also Deeds - Essays in Public Ethics and Private Aesthetics

Words are also Deeds - Essays in Public Ethics and Private Aesthetics

Loewen, G. V.

Paperback

Philosophy

ISBN10: 1682354849
ISBN13: 9781682354841
Publisher: Strategic Book Pub
Published: Jun 18 2021
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.64
Height: 0.44 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Cultural Criticism

In the two dozen essays written over a nine-month span, from 2020 to 2021, G.V. Loewen attempts to cast the darkest denizens of our own dubious days into the less lurid chiaroscuro of cultural critique. The sense throughout that saying is also doing and that words thus carry a greater gravity than is often given them, should be kept in mind. For us, if the word and the deed are to be brought together, at once ethics and aesthetics must again be separated, if never to be utterly parted. They must travel beside one another, in mutual aid, but they cannot simply become each other, as they did during the period beginning with Goya and ending with Bacon, with the 1920s and 1930s reaching the high-water mark of this culture critique. For us, the 'scandal of art', as Paul Ricoeur has aptly put it, must indeed 'balance', or at the least balance out, the 'scandal of the false consciousness'. But the scales upon which this confrontation occurs is held by the hand of ethics alone. [Adapted from the preface]

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