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Art and Morality - Essays in the Spirit of George Santayana (Hardcover)
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Art and Morality - Essays in the Spirit of George Santayana (Hardcover)
Series: American Philosophy
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The guiding theme of these essays by aesthetician, musician, and
Santayana scholar Morris Grossman is the importance of preserving
the tension between what can be unified and what is disorganized,
random, and miscellaneous. Grossman described this as the tension
between art and morality: Art arrests a sense of change and yields
moments of unguarded enjoyment and peace; but soon, shifting
circumstances compel evaluation, decision, and action. According to
Grossman, the best art preserves the tension between the aesthetic
consummation of experience and the press of morality understood as
the business of navigating conflicts, making choices, and meeting
needs. This concern was intimately related to his reading of George
Santayana. The best philosophy, like the best art, preserves the
tension between what can be ordered and what resists assimilation,
and Grossman read Santayana as exemplifying this virtue in his
embrace of multiple perspectives. Other scholars have noted the
multiplicity or irony in Santayana's work, but Grossman was unique
in taking such a style to be a substantive part of Santayana's
philosophizing.
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