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“Leadership, Boal concluded, is the art of facilitating imaginative interventions by the greatest possible number...”

Leadership Citizenship Civics Arts And Humanities Theater Of The Absurd

Book:The Work of Art in the World: Civic Agency and Public Humanities

Source: The Work of Art in the World: Civic Agency and Public Humanities

“We should worry again about the connection between play-starved education and eroded mechanisms for political debate, if worry can lead beyond deadlocks. Too often, academic essays pursue analysis and critique but stop short of speculation about remedies, as if intellectual work excluded an element of creativity. In fact, essays that remain risk-averse miss the potential of the genre to "assay," or try out, ideas.”

Writing Aesthetics Civics Essay Humanities Citizhenship Intellectual Work

Book:The Work of Art in the World: Civic Agency and Public Humanities

Source: The Work of Art in the World: Civic Agency and Public Humanities

“The aesthetic education offers a "subjective" transformation of each person's private war of conflicting drives into a knack for making beautiful public peace offerings.”

Art Citizenship Public Life Aesthetic Education

Book:The Work of Art in the World: Civic Agency and Public Humanities

Source: The Work of Art in the World: Civic Agency and Public Humanities