On the record
The freeing of the artist in literary presentation, in other words, is as much a precondition of the desirable creation of adequate opinion on public matters as is the freeing of social inquiry.
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John Dewey
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Dewey posits that artistic freedom in literature is essential for forming informed public opinion.
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Signs and symbols, language, are the means of communication by which a fraternally shared experience is ushered in and sustained.
Publication is partial and the public which results is partially informed and formed until the meanings it purveys pass from mouth to mouth.
We lie, as Emerson said, in the lap of an immense intelligence.
But the wingèd words of conversation in immediate intercourse have a vital import lacking in the fixed and frozen words of written speech.