The element of fire : science, art, and the human world

목차 (Table of Contents)

• 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