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Overview
How can works of the imagination help us to understand good and evil in the modern world? In this new collection of essays, Alex Danchev treats the artist as a crucial moral witness of our troubled times, and puts art to work in the service of political and ethical inquiry. He takes inspiration from Seamus Heaney's dictum: 'the imaginative transformation of human life is the means by which we can most truly grasp and comprehend it'. This is a book of blasphemers, world menders, troublemakers, torturers and turbulent priests of every persuasion.
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- ISBN-13: 9781474428002
- ISBN-10: 1474428002
- Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
- Publish Date: July 2017
- Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.1 x 0.5 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.55 pounds
- Page Count: 192
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