Reviews for Art and instinct

The average rating for Art and instinct based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2015-11-03 00:00:00 Thomas Block Very difficult book that presupposes an extensive and thorough understanding of aesthetics.

Review # 2 was written on 2019-08-13 00:00:00 Vicki Nichols It's not an easy read thanks to all the kantian terminology and references to long-forgotten german neokantians, but this is an absolutely fascinating work that I'm really glad to have read. Indispensable if you want to really understand how Bakhtin's later thought came about, and parts that are genuinely quite beautiful and intriguing ' particularly a passage about what our relationship to our own image is when looking in the mirror, and his explanation of how one relates to a limb that they've lost control of due to illness (Bakhtin suffered from lifelong osteomyelitis and would have his right leg amputated 11 years after this was written).