Alan Simpson
7 Papers
90 Citations
Alan Simpson is an academic researcher. The author has contributed to research in topics: Feeling & The arts. The author has an hindex of 3, co-authored 7 publications.
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The Symbolic Order: A Contemporary Reader on the Arts Debate@@@The Claims of Feeling: Readings on Aesthetic Education
TL;DR: Art as the pursuit of truth: the culture of links, Peter Brook art, judgement and belief - towards the condition of music, Michael Tippett. as mentioned in this paper The renewal of aesthetics: modern philosophy and the neglect of aesthetics, Roger Scruton the aesthetic in education, Louis Arnaud Reid.
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What Gardens Mean
Alan Simpson,Stephanie Ross +1 more
TL;DR: In "What Gardens Mean, " as mentioned in this paper, Ross draws on philosophy as well as the histories of art, gardening, culture, and ideas to explore the magical lure of gardens.
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The Uses of "Cultural Literacy": A British View
TL;DR: Hirsch as discussed by the authors argues that the idea of a culture presupposes a body of knowledge, values, and assumptions that underlies and is shared within the language and practices of a society; the enabling structure, as it were, of a community of discourse.
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Language, Literature, and Art
TL;DR: The concept of art seems to be peculiar to highly developed civilizations and to have meaning only in the context of social traditions, practices, language, and values as mentioned in this paper, and even today there may still remain certain isolated societies that do not have 'art' in any conscious sense.
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The Concept of Aesthetic Education in Britain.
TL;DR: The question of whether there are any educational concepts that are universal or whether they are all entirely culture bound is one that exercises philosophers of education as mentioned in this paper. But this question is not a question for this paper; rather, it is a question to what extent a concept such as "aesthetic education" is internationally sharable.
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