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  • Against the Flow

    Education, the Art and Postmodern Culture

    by Peter Abbs ...
    At once provocative and inspiring*, Against the Flow* is a work of polemic from an internationally respected writer and thinker on arts education. Peter Abbs argues that contemporary education ignores the aesthetic and ethical as a result of being in thrall to such forces as the market economy and managerial and functional dictates. He identifies the present education system as being inimical to ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Living Powers(RLE Edu K)

    The Arts in Education

    by Peter Abbs ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Education
    When originally published this was the first book to offer a collective history of all the arts – Art, Drama, Dance, Music, Literature and Film – in the curriculum. It also offers a coherent framework for the teaching of arts which is in line with the best current trends since the Gulbenkian Report of 1982. It insists that the arts, seen together should be an essential part of the national ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • The Educational Imperative

    A Defence Of Socratic And Aesthetic Learning

    by Peter Abbs ...
    Written with both the cultural and moral crisis and the challenge of the future in mind, Peter Abbs's book charts an open, clear, and positive way forward for education. Divided into four sections, the first examines the true and fitting ends of education and outlines a positive conception of education as an initiation into critical enquiry and the personal art of learning. The two middle sections ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Aa is for Aesthetic (RLE Edu K)

    Essays on Creative and Aesthetic Education

    by Peter Abbs ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Education
    This volume reaffirms the indispensable place of the arts in any coherent curriculum. The author hopes that the specific arguments formulated in the book will advance the conservationist post-Modernist aesthetic. ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • The Symbolic Order

    A Contemporary Reader On The Arts Debate

    Edited by Peter Abbs ...
    Alongside Living Powers and A is for Aesthetic this book is intended to establish a conceptual frame for the Arts in Education series. The first and primary aim of this symposium is to put teachers of all the arts in touch with some of the most recent and the best writing on the nature of art. ... Read more

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  • The Event of Literature

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    In this characteristically concise, witty, and lucid book, Terry Eagleton turns his attention to the questions we should ask about literature, but rarely do. What is literature? Can we even speak of "literature" at all? What do different literary theories tell us about what texts mean and do? In throwing new light on these and other questions he has raised in previous best-sellers, Eagleton offers ... Read more

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  • An Introduction to the Philosophy of Art

    by Richard Eldridge ...
    Series series Cambridge Introductions to Philosophy
    An Introduction to the Philosophy of Art is a clear and compact survey of philosophical theories of the nature and value of art, including in its scope literature, painting, sculpture, music, dance, architecture, movies, conceptual art and performance art. This second edition incorporates significant new research on topics including pictorial depiction, musical expression, conceptual art, Hegel, ... Read more

    $34.49 USD

  • The Edge of Words

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    The Edge of Words is Rowan Williams' first book since standing down as Archbishop of Canterbury.Invited to give the prestigious 2014 Gifford Lectures, Dr Williams has produced a scholarly but eminently accessible account of the possibilities of speaking about God – taking as his point of departure the project of natural theology.Dr Williams enters into dialogue with thinkers as diverse as ... Read more

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    Edited by James Elkins ...
    Series series The Art Seminar
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    $55.99 USD

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    by Roger Scruton ...
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