On Good and Evil and the Grey Zone
by Alex Danchev
2021-01-31 05:04:33
On Good and Evil and the Grey Zone
by Alex Danchev
2021-01-31 05:04:33
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 politi...
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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 takesinspiration 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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