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Whatever: making sense of John Carey

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 July 2009

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Abstract

D.J. Sheppard reflects on Carey's controversial What Good are the Arts?

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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 2008

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1 Carey, John, What Good are the Arts? (London: Faber and Faber, 2005). All pages references are to the paperback edition (London: Faber and Faber, 2005).Google Scholar

2 Carey attributes this phrase to Sam Leith in the Daily Telegraph (p. 269), but it is a point also made by Jonathan Keates in the Times Literary Supplement.Google Scholar

3 For details on the ‘antinomy of taste’, the reader is referred to Kant's Critique of Judgement (1790).Google Scholar

4 Donne, John, Satire III, 80–1.Google Scholar