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How Not to Think About High Culture — A Rag‐Bag of Examples
Author(s) -
Gingell J.,
Brandon E. P.
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
journal of philosophy of education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.501
H-Index - 41
eISSN - 1467-9752
pISSN - 0309-8249
DOI - 10.1111/1467-9752.00188
Subject(s) - clarity , worry , sociology , identification (biology) , epistemology , aesthetics , environmental ethics , social psychology , psychology , philosophy , anxiety , biochemistry , chemistry , botany , psychiatry , biology
Defenders of high culture can be found invoking many and various allies. Many are, we think, out of place. These defences raise issues that we do not need to worry about or themselves create unnecessary difficulties for clarity of thought on these matters. In this chapter we will touch upon a number of such irrelevancies. We will begin by examining the assimilation of high culture to religion and religious concerns in the thought of Eliot and Scruton: this will allow us to indicate our stance on the place of religion in schools. We will then examine some psychological and sociological issues that Bantock has invoked in defending his secular vision of the role of culture, and conclude with Barrow's curious identification of culture with general intelligence.