Autor: Dunne, Tad

Buch: Internet

Titel: Lonergan, LOYOLA, SPIRITUAL DIRECTION, AND THE ARTS

Stichwort: Kunst, Kreativität, Befangenheit, Heilung, Hoffnung

Kurzinhalt: Überbewertung von Kreativität; Kunst: Befreiung der Seele zur Hoffnung

Textausschnitt: () What really stands out, though, is that Lonergan thinks that creativity is never enough because it's almost always biased.
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We commonly call good artists 'creative,' but the better adjective is 'healing.' I say this because if aesthetics is mainly about hope, then its main role in society is to heal, and only through the liberation of the psyche to envision the 'better yet' in life does it support the creativity to bring about that better yet.