The Art of Life: The Culture and Politics of Class Formation

by John Kekes

Book Overview

"That the art of life is creative, imaginative, and individual does not mean... that it cannot be taught and learned or that individuals cannot improve their mastery of it. Teaching it proceeds by way of exemplary lives, and learning it consists in coming to appreciate what makes some lives exemplary.... That imitation here is impossible does not mean one cannot learn from examples. The question is, How can that be done reasonably; how can decisions...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801440068
• ISBN13: 9780801440069
• Release Date: August 2002
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.4"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher