On Good and Evil and the Grey Zone
Alex Danchev
(Author)
Description
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 troubled times, and puts art to work in the service of political and ethical inquiry. He takes inspiration from Seamus Heaney's dictum: 'the imaginative transformation of human life is the means by which we can most truly grasp and comprehend it'. This is a book of blasphemers, world menders, troublemakers, torturers and turbulent priests of every persuasion.
Product Details
Price
$138.00
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Publish Date
December 02, 2015
Pages
192
Dimensions
6.2 X 9.1 X 0.8 inches | 1.2 pounds
Language
English
Type
Hardcover
EAN/UPC
9781474410311
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About the Author
Alex Danchev (1955-2016) was Professor of International Relations at the University of St Andrews, and the recipient of a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship. He was the author of a number of internationally acclaimed biographies, most recently Cézanne (2012), and an influential collection of essays, On Art and War and Terror (2009). He is also the editor of the best-selling 100 Artists' Manifestos (2011).
