The author contends that it is necessary, though difficult, to discuss art in the language and concepts of science. The alternative is to rationalize art in mythological and metaphysical terms, as did the Greeks as well as the romanticists of the nineteenth century. Believing that this is not satisfactory today in our present scientific temper, the author presents here a "perspective" of the function of the social sciences in carrying out this function.
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