“Truth to Mate­ri­als: For­mal­ism Unveiled“ selec­tion from Project Wild­card: Unpack­ing the role of Art in the search for knowl­edge, wis­dom, and moral agency Formalism’s “manifesto,” composed by Clive Bell, draws from Kant’s Cri­tique of Aes­thetic Judg­ment—and does so lib­er­ally. Rig­or­ous source study is not required to show that Bell has mis­con­strued, if not sorely mis­un­der­stood, the […]