BiblioFiles #114: Is Art Dangerous?

At CenterForLit we often say that literature provides an avenue for exploring the differing perspectives of the Great Conversation from the safety of our own homes. But if art is powerful to persuade the heart and not just the mind, is it also dangerous? In this episode, we discuss the power of art and potential safeguards for reading.

Referenced Works:

– BiblioFiles Episode #5: What is Art?

– Plato’s Republic

– Utopia by Thomas More

– Aesop’s Fables

– Hans Christian Andersen Fairytales

– War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

– The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery

– Watership Down by Richard Adams

– The Chosen by Chaim Potok

– A Theology of Reading: The Hermeneutics of Love by Alan Jacobs

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