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Art and Social Change

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 January 2010

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The mass media of communications have often been charged with making our life more vulgar than need be. The assumption which underlies what I have to say is that the influence of unique artistic sensitivities on society has also been increased by the mass media of communications. This is good news and I am aware of the risk I am courting when I attach importance to a promising kind of social change: the academic respectability of pursuing optimistic lines of thought is strictly limited in sociological circles.

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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy and the contributors 1970

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