The Issue at a Glance
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The Issue at a Glance
Make Art—and Academia—Medieval Again (https://doi. org/10.1007/s12129-020-09908-4) Rachel Fulton Brown, University of Chicago Much like the devotional paintings hanging in our finest museums, the Gothic architecture that adorns American college campuses fails to elicit from visitors even the slightest religious feeling. The reason, says critic Rachel Fulton Brown, is academia’s myopic focus on the material experience, the “worship of things (artifacts) rather than God,” and a “hostility to the possibility of seeing religious experience as something which academic study might facilitate, not to mention enrich—or vice versa.” Art History Gone Amuck (https://doi.org/10.1007/s12129-020-09902-w) Michelle Marder Kamhi, independent scholar and critic, co-editor of Aristos An evaluation of the most widely used textbook in art history maps the slow but steady erosion of imagery in art—and the loss of meaning, purpose, and understanding that representative art in the West provided. Autistic Criticism (https://doi.org/10.1007/s12129-020-09909-3) Gorman Beauchamp, University of Michigan (emeritus) It is one thing when critics insist that racial identity is socially constructed and therefore acquired or discarded as one chooses. But it is quite another when they read black characters and racial hierarchies into literature that contains virtually neither. Countering the Counterculture: “A little management” (https://doi. org/10.1007/s12129-020-09903-9) Thomas L. Jeffers, Marquette University (emeritus) It might be true, as Irving Kristol once noted, that the culture war is over and conservatives lost. But in the works of great literature, and in the not
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insignificant number of professors, critics, and magazines that take literature seriously, there is always a saving remnant. “Despair is a sin.” Statues Come Down (https://doi.org/10.1007/s12129-020-09913-7) Lauren Weiner The movements to tear down artistic representations of historical figures deemed offensive by progressives pre-dates the riots of spring and summer 2020. Given the speed with which authorities have acted to accommodate even acts of vandalism, it is surprising that so many protesters haven’t sought to achieve their ends democratically. As Lauren Weiner points out, “There’s a right way and a wrong way to do these things.” A Broken Vessel: Identity Theory and the Fragmentation of Poetry (https://doi.org/10.1007/s12129-020-09893-8) Jane Clark Scharl, graduate of The King’s College, New York City Identity theory insists that human beings experience the world as members of the identity group to which they belong. This idea is a “revolt against the concept of poetry,” which seeks to plumb the depths of universal human experience. How Fares Western Civ? (https://doi.org/10.1007/s12129-020-09914-6) Daniel Pipes, Middle East Forum Rodney Stark’s remarkable 2014 study, How the West Won: The Neglected Story of the Triumph of Modernity (2014), can help restore an appreciation for the achievements of Western civilization, and
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