Tento anglický filozof a historik bol významným bádateľom a profesorom na Oxfordskej univerzite. Jeho práca sa zameriavala na hlboké filozofické otázky a historické interpretácie, čím obohatil intelektuálnu krajinu svojej doby. Skúmal povahu metafyziky a metodológiu historického poznania, zanechal trvalý odkaz v akademickom svete. Jeho rozsiahle znalosti a bystré myslenie ovplyvnili generácie študentov a bádateľov.
A broken heart and scarred mind can be healed with help from another world.
This story explores the power of love, place, family and community. It tells
of a threeway journey: in the present, into the past and into the mind.
This treatise on aesthetics begins by showing that the word 'art' is used as a name not only for 'art proper' but also for certain things which are 'art falsely so called'. These are craft or skill, magic and amusement, each of which, by confusion with art proper, generates a false aesthetic theory. In the course of attacking these theories the author criticizes various psychological theories of art, offers a new theory of magic, and reinterprets Plato's so-called 'attack on art', showing that it has been entirely misunderstood. Finally, he draws important inferences concerning the position of art in human society.