What Good are the Arts?

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John Carey

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Do the arts make us better people? Are they a sign of civilization? Why should 'high' art be thought higher than 'low'? Are judgements about art anything more than personal opinions? What are works of art anyway - do they belong to some special, sacred category? Can the brain-scientists who are investigating the arts tell us anything useful about them? In the first part of his new book John Carey returns startling answers to these and related questions. In the second part he makes out a self-confessedly personal and subjective case for the superiority of literature to all other arts.

Author Biography:

John Carey is a distinguished critic, reviewer and broadcaster, and the author of several books including studies of Donne, Dickens and Thackeray, and most recently, Pure Pleasure: A Guide to the Twentieth Century's Most Enjoyable Books. He is a regular critic on BBC radio and is the editor of the best-selling anthologies The Faber Book of Reportage, The Faber Book of Science and The Faber Book of Utopias.

Release date Australia

June 1st, 2006

Author

John Carey

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Edition

Main

Pages

320

Dimensions

130x195x30

ISBN-13

9780571226030

Product ID

2405183

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