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Man's Rage for Chaos: Biology, Behavior, and the Arts: 10 (Postmodernpositions)
 
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Man's Rage for Chaos: Biology, Behavior, and the Arts: 10 (Postmodernpositions) (Paperback)
by Morse Peckham (Author), Patrick Wilkinson (Editor)
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  • Paperback: 324 pages
  • Publisher: Maisonneuve Press (30 Nov 2006)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0944624367
  • ISBN-13: 978-0944624364
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  (1 customer review)
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Robert Merrill, professor and associate dean, Maryland Institute, College of Art
"It is time to rescue cultural studies and aesthetic theory from its long flight from social activism. Peckham is the right place to start..."

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This is a new edition of the much neglected 1967 breakthrough analysis of behavior and the arts. Cultural criticism has been too obsessed with the rage for order to be able to grasp the import of Peckham's search for "some human activity, which serves to break up orientations, to weaken and frustrate the tyrannous drive to order, to prepare the individual to observe what the orientation tells him is irrelevant, but what may every be relevant." This book is destined to force a sharp turn in critical cultural studies because it addresses the rage for chaos in traditional "high culture," not just in popular culture.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Man's Rage for Chaos, 13 Oct 2004
By S. Bergemann (Newcastle, UK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Man's Rage for Chaos: Biology, Behaviour and the Arts (Paperback)
This book is quite simply the best rational explanation of Art I have ever read. Peckham's writing style isn't the very best but his ideas are razor sharp and, I would say, essential reading. One of the most significant books I have ever read.

Peckham draws upon concepts from various disciplines including semiotics, literary theory and perceptual psychology to develop his thesis - that the human race has developed artistic behaviour to maintain the necessary intellectual flexibility to solve new problems. He does this in a systematic manner by isolating what the essential features of art are and are not and then accounting for their presence in our culture by considering how they function.

This is the only thorough and sensible scientific approach to the question 'what is art?' that I have ever come across. In the process of drawing out his argument Morse Peckham incisively dispatches many of the unsupportable myths about art which litter even current writing about the arts both academic and otherwise. I would recommend this book to anybody who wants to be able to speak or write with authority about the arts.

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