The Philosophy Department and the Nancy K. Rhoden Lecture series presents Aesthetic Manipulation?
Is there such a thing as aesthetic manipulation? Many people speak of feeling manipulated by a film, and sometimes by other art (for example, music). How should we
understand this notion? I hope to enlist your aid in figuring out what aesthetic manipulation might be.
This lecture is presented by Marcia Baron. An Oberlin alumna, Marcia Baron is the James H. Rudy Professor of Philosophy at Indiana University. Baron's main interests are in moral philosophy and philosophy of criminal law. Publications include Kantian Ethics Almost without Apology (1995), Manipulativeness (2003), Rape, Seduction, Shame, and Culpability in Tess of the d’Urbervilles (2013), A Kantian Take on the Supererogatory (2015), Shame and Shamelessness (2018), and Recklessness and Negligence in the Criminal Law (2024). She is currently working on a book titled Self-Defense, Reason and the Law (under contract with OUP).
Open to all members of the Oberlin campus community
