Daily Bread
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491_9781621381181
FOR MORE THAN THIRTY YEARS, Brian Keebles writings have made a most rare and valuable contribution to elucidating the applications of the philosophia perennis to our understanding of art and work--to the activities, in short, that sustain everyday life and economy. Daily Bread: Art and Work in the Reign of Quantity is a selection of pieces from Keebles prose publications, intended to bring this important oeuvre to new readers and to consolidate it in a single volume for those already familiar with Keebles work. Inclusive of several previously uncollected essays by the author, the volume is divided into two parts: the first introduces Keebles principal ideas about art and work, tradition, and the crisis of the modern world; the second discusses these ideas in relation to the work of specific modern artists and poets. These essays reach far deeper and have a much wider scope than most contemporary cultural critique. They offer to the engaged reader ways to confront the contemporary malaise that are viable precisely because the authors approach is based on universal and timeless metaphysical principles.Brian Keeble has devoted many years to the study of the traditional arts and is the author of a number of valuable works on the subject. We must be grateful to him for providing a powerful reminder of that art which reflects both beauty and truth and which is of the utmost importance for a life worthy of being called truly human.--SEYYED HOSSEIN NASR, author of Man and Nature: The Spiritual Crisis in Modern Man Keebles [work] calls for eliminating the barriers between art, crafts, and work by infusing all activity with a sense of the sacred.--JOSCELYN GODWIN, author of Mystery Religions in the Ancient World These essays should be of value to those who are responsible for the present state of the arts, not only in our schools, but of the wider arts of working and living to some purpose consistent with our deepest nature.--KEITH CRITCHLOW, Professor Em
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