{"product_id":"what-good-are-the-arts","title":"What Good are the Arts?","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eJohn Carey - one of Britain's most respected literary critics--here cuts through the cant surrounding the fine arts, debunking claims that the arts make us better people or that judgments about art are anything more than personal opinion. But Carey does argue strongly for the value of art as an activity and for the superiority of one art in particular: literature. Literature, he contends, is the only art capable of reasoning, and the only art that can criticize. Literature has the ability to inspire the mind and the heart towards practical ends far better than any work of conceptual art. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHere then is a lively and stimulating invitation to debate the value of art.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Carey","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44993506934831,"sku":"9780571226030","price":1399.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0743\/6428\/9071\/files\/9780571226030.jpg?v=1772205393","url":"https:\/\/lunabooks.in\/products\/what-good-are-the-arts","provider":"Luna Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}