Questo filosofo e storico inglese fu un distinto studioso e professore all'Università di Oxford. Il suo lavoro approfondì profonde questioni filosofiche e interpretazioni storiche, contribuendo in modo significativo al panorama intellettuale della sua epoca. Esplorò la natura della metafisica e la metodologia della conoscenza storica, lasciando un'eredità duratura nel mondo accademico. La sua vasta conoscenza e il suo acuto intelletto influenzarono generazioni di studenti e ricercatori.
A broken heart and scarred mind can be healed with help from another world. This story explores the power of love, place, family and community. It tells of a threeway journey: in the present, into the past and into the mind.
This treatise on aesthetics begins by showing that the word 'art' is used as a name not only for 'art proper' but also for certain things which are 'art falsely so called'. These are craft or skill, magic and amusement, each of which, by confusion with art proper, generates a false aesthetic theory. In the course of attacking these theories the author criticizes various psychological theories of art, offers a new theory of magic, and reinterprets Plato's so-called 'attack on art', showing that it has been entirely misunderstood. Finally, he draws important inferences concerning the position of art in human society.
A pocket-sized, illustrated history tour of Leek, in Staffordshire, showing how it has changed across the decades.