The Landscape of Humanity: Art, Culture and Society

by O'Hear, Anthony

• ISBN13: 9781845401450
• ISBN10: 184540145X
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781845402808
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-08-01
• Publisher: Ingram Pub Services
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Summary

The fourteen essays in this book develop a conception of human culture, which is humane and traditionalist. Focusing particularly on notions of beauty and the aesthetic, it sees within our culture intimations of the transcendent, and in two essays the nature of religion is directly addressed. A number of essays also explore the relation between politics and tradition.

Table of Contents

The Landscape of Humanity	p. 1
Art
Evolution and Aesthetics	p. 6
Historicism and Architectural Knowledge	p. 28
Prospects for Beauty	p. 48
Kantian Distinterestedness	p. 66
The real or the Real? Chardin or Rothko?	p. 74
Culture
Two Cultures Revisited	p. 87
Art and Censorship	p. 104
To Swim with Strong Strokes in the Lake of Antique Poetry	p. 110
Art and Technology: An Old Tension	p. 126
Science and Religion	p. 143
Politics
Democracy and Openness	p. 158
Hayek and Popper: The Road to Serfdom and The Open Society	p. 177
Criticism and Tradition in Popper, Oakeshott and Hayek	p. 193
The Open Society Revisited	p. 209
Britain and Europe: An Oakeshottian Meditation	p. 229
Index	p. 239
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