Against the Flow : Education, the Art and Postmodern Culture (Paperback)

Part 1. The poetics of education 1. The arts, postmodern culture and the inner dynamic of authentic education 2. On the spiritual in art, culture and education 3. The rise and fall of the new arts paradigm in education Part 2. The poetics of culture 4. The three faces of wisdom; literature and the arts as radical routes to understanding 5. The creative word and the creative life: a cultural map of autobiography from classical Greece to the postmodern crisis 6. Music, metaphor, meaning: a poetics before and after postmodernism 7. Thirty-nine notes towards a new metaphysical poetry 8. Art against the Zeitgeist: on the work of four contemporary art-makers