Against the Flow : Education, the Art and Postmodern Culture

ISBN-13: 9780415297929 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 192 str.

Peter Abbs;Abbs Peter

Opis

'Against The Flow' is a provocative and eloquent argument for the need to reconsider the role and nature of arts education so that education as a whole is liberated from a narrow focus shaped by the market economy, and for education to become an end in itself, rather than a means to an end.

Spis treści

Part 1. The poetics of education 1. The arts, postmodern culture and the inner dynamic of authentic education 2. On the spiritual in art, culture and education 3. The rise and fall of the new arts paradigm in education Part 2. The poetics of culture 4. The three faces of wisdom; literature and the arts as radical routes to understanding 5. The creative word and the creative life: a cultural map of autobiography from classical Greece to the postmodern crisis 6. Music, metaphor, meaning: a poetics before and after postmodernism 7. Thirty-nine notes towards a new metaphysical poetry 8. Art against the Zeitgeist: on the work of four contemporary art-makers

O autorze

Peter Abbs is Professor of Creative Writing in the University of Sussex's Graduate Research Centre in the Humanities.