Review of Chapter 7 in What Good are the Arts? by John Carey. Transpositions has been hosting reviews of each chapter of this book from 28 March – 3 April 2011. For the full list of reviews across the week…
Review of Chapter 6 in What Good are the Arts? by John Carey. Transpositions is hosting reviews of each chapter of this book from 28 March – 3 April 2011. In Part One of “What Good are the Arts?” John…
Review of Chapter 5 in What Good are the Arts? by John Carey. Transpositions is hosting reviews of each chapter of this book from 28 March – 3 April 2011. In the fifth chapter of his book, Carey evaluates the…
Review of Chapter 4 in What Good are the Arts? by John Carey. Transpositions is hosting reviews of each chapter of this book from 28 March – 3 April 2011. According to John Carey, the arts do not make us…
Review of Chapter 3 in What Good are the Arts? by John Carey. Transpositions is hosting reviews of each chapter of this book from 28 March – 3 April 2011. As we have seen from James McCullough’s post and Sara…
Review of Chapter 2 in What Good are the Arts? by John Carey. Transpositions is hosting reviews of each chapter of this book from 28 March – 3 April 2011. Building on his definition of art in Chapter 1, John…
Review of Chapter 1 in What Good are the Arts? by John Carey. Transpositions is hosting reviews of each chapter of this book from 28 March – 3 April 2011. As would any philosopher who seeks to address matters of…
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 professor of English Literature at Oxford University, challenges many of the ‘preconceptions about the good of…
The Power of the Word: Poetry, Theology and Life Conference This conference is organized by Heythrop College and the Institute of English Studies, University of London, and is being held from 17th-18th June 2011. Religion has always been part of…