Afterward: Reflecting on Our Review of What Good Are The Arts?
We devoted all of last week to reviewing John Carey’s book What Good Are The Arts?. His polemical and very entertaining prose opened up a…
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Chapter Seven: Creative Reading–Literature and Indistinctness
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Chapter Six: Literature and Critical Intelligence
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Chapter Five: Can art be a religion?
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Chapter Four: Do the arts make us better?
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Chapter Three: Can Science Help?
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Chapter Two: Is ‘high’ art superior?
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Chapter One: What is a work of art?
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Introducing What Good are the Arts? week
Starting tomorrow, Transpositions will devote the next seven days to engaging thoughtfully with John Carey’s book What Good are the Arts? (2005). Carey, former…
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