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Lecture Susan Neiman

18 November 2015 @ 20:00 - 21:30

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Art and Enlightenment: Old-fashioned thoughts for the 21st Century Can the arts still play a role in Enlightenment? In 1750 Jean-Jacques Rousseau wrote that the arts and sciences weave garlands of flowers around the chains that bind us. Are the arts inevitably coopted by the social structures in which we live – or can they help to educate citizens for a world that is better than the one we know?
Art and Enlightenment:  Old-fashioned thoughts for the 21st Century Can the arts still play a role in Enlightenment?  In 1750 Jean-Jacques Rousseau wrote that the arts and sciences weave garlands of flowers around the chains that bind us.    Are the arts inevitably coopted by the social structures in which we live - or can they help to educate citizens for a world that is better than the one we know?

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Date:
18 November 2015
Time:
20:00 - 21:30
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Website:
https://www.knaw.nl/nl/actueel/agenda/susan-neiman-art-and-enlightenment

Venue

KNAW, Trippenhuis
Kloveniersburgwal 29
Amsterdam, 1011 JV + Google Map

Art and Enlightenment:  Old-fashioned thoughts for the 21st Century

Can the arts still play a role in Enlightenment?  In 1750 Jean-Jacques Rousseau wrote that the arts and sciences weave garlands of flowers around the chains that bind us.    Are the arts inevitably coopted by the social structures in which we live – or can they help to educate citizens for a world that is better than the one we know?

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