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CONTENTS
Preface ... x
Acknowledgments ... xi
Introduction ... l
1 The Scientific and the Artistic : Two Approaches to Experience ... 8
The vault of heaven ... 8
Scientific objectivity ... 10
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CONTENTS
Preface ... x
Acknowledgments ... xi
Introduction ... l
1 The Scientific and the Artistic : Two Approaches to Experience ... 8
The vault of heaven ... 8
Scientific objectivity ... 10
Pure realism : the world as it is ... 14
Imagination and subjectivity ... 18
The language of feelings ... 20
Artistic expression and the human world ... 21
2 A Decentred Universe : The World of Modern Science ... 29
The Aristotelian perspective ... 29
The scientific image versus the manifest image ... 32
The explanatory power of the scientific picture ... 39
The theorising bat ... 41
3 Science and Truth ... 44
Newtonian questions ... 45
The inference to best explanation ... 49
Observation without theory ... 53
Empiricism ... 58
The absolute conception of the world ... 65
The passing of time ... 67
Science and mythology ... 71
4 Human Culture and the Role of Artistic Expression ... 74
Human culture and practices ... 75
Common culture and religion ... 80
A la Recherche du Temps Perdu ... 82
The 'two' cultures ... 83
Music ... 85
Art and self-understanding ... 88
Art and social science ... 91
5 Truth and Art ... 94
The literal and the metaphorical ... 96
Metaphor in science ... 99
Metaphor in religion ... 100
Metaphor and the expression of inner attitudes ... 103
Homeric metaphor ... 105
Art and imaginative transformation ... 107
6 The Common Pursuit and Individual Creativity ... 112
Lapiths and centaurs ... 112
The contemporary crisis in the arts ... 114
Artistic modernism ... 116
Art and religion ... 125
Aesthetic sensibility : 'mere' taste ... 129
Practical knowledge and artistic tradition ... 133
7 A Ministry to Life ... 139
Self and world ... 140
Art and the machine ... 145
Nature ... 147
Apollo and Dionysus ... 148
Delightful illusions ... 150
'Our social situation' ... 154
Decadence ... 156
Redemption ... 158
Conclusion ... 161
Notes ... 164
Index ... 174
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