The Symbolic Order

Part 1 The renewal of aesthetics: modern philosophy and the neglect of aesthetics, Roger Scruton; the aesthetic in education, Louis Arnaud Reid. Part 2 Art as the pursuit of truth: the culture of links, Peter Brook; art, judgement and belief - towards the condition of music, Michael Tippett. Part 3 The primacy of feeling: the education of feeling, Rex Gibson; literature and the education of feeling, L.C.Knights; feeling and reason in the arts - the rationality of feeling, David Best. Part 4 The demise of Modernism: the father of art history, Ernst Gombrich; the domestication of outrage, Denis Donoghue; approaching the end of art, Arthur Danto; aesthetics after modernism, Peter Fuller. Part 5 Art and tradition: the arts in education, G.R.Bantock. Part 6 The recognition of myth: myth and education, Ted Hughes; myth and identity, Jerome Bruner. Part 7 Art and the creative process: individuation and the creative process, Anthony Storr; the pattern of art-making, Peter Abbs. Part 8 The teaching of the arts: art worlds in schools, Maxine Greene; teaching poetry, George Whalley; purpose in music education, Keith Swanwick and Dorothy Taylor. Part 9 Art and the community: the arts, education and the community, David Aspin. Part 10 Art as affirmation: real presences, George Steiner.