 | Art before the Law: Aesthetics and Ethics Ever since Plato expelled the poets from his ideal state, the ethics of art has had to confront philosophy's denial of art's morality. In Art before the Law, Ruth Ronen proposes a new outlook on the ethics of art by arguing that art insists on this tradition of denial, affirming its singular ethics through negativity. Ronen Ruth : Ruth Ronen is a professor in the Department of Philosophy at Tel Aviv University. |
