What Good Are the Arts?

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Author	: John Carey
Publisher	: Oxford University Press
Total Pages	: 299
Release	: 2010
ISBN-10	: 9780199735976
ISBN-13	: 0199735972
Rating	: 4/5 (76 Downloads)

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Book Synopsis What Good Are the Arts? by : John Carey

Book excerpt: Do the arts make us better people? Why should "high" art be thought higher than "low"? In the first part of this spirited polemic, Carey returns startling answers to these and related questions. In the second part he makes a provocative case for the superiority of literature to all other arts.

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