1st Edition

Feeling and Reason in the Arts

By David Best Copyright 1985
210 Pages
by Routledge

210 Pages
by Routledge

First published in 1985, Feeling and Reason in the Arts raises an important question-how can a central role for the arts, and in particular the arts in education, be justified? The arts and the artistic judgments are often expressions of individual feeling and value, and it is a common belief that this necessarily implies a subjectivism that is incompatible with the notion that artistic... Read more

Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Response 2. Reason 3. Questions 4. Differences 5. Free Expression 6. Creativity 7. Feeling 8. Creator and Spectator 9. Two Attitudes 10. The Particularity of Feeling 11. The Aesthetic and the Artistic 12. Art and Life References Index

Biography

David Best (at the time of the original publication) was with department of philosophy, university of Swansea.