On Good and Evil and the Grey Zone

Mixes art, thought, politics and ethics to explore the terrors of the modern age, from Auschwitz to Abu Ghraib 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 wh