CONTENTS

JOURNAL OF INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES
Vol. XXXIV 2022

THE ARTS & TRANSCENDENCE:
IN SEARCH OF BEAUTY, TRUTH AND GOODNESS

EDITORIAL
Oskar Gruenwald: The Arts as Self-Transcendence    1
ARTICLES

Jeremy E. Scarbrough:  Music and Justice: A Teleological Philosophy of Music Aethetics   11
Christina Bieber Lake:  Tasting the Transcendent: Denise Levertov’s “O Taste and See”   43

Rod A. Miller:  Zombie Art: Beyond Materialist Art Myths   59
Lynda E. Bair:  Interacting With Art: Healing From the Inside Out 73
Gregory E. Lamb:  Art as Therapeutic Beauty and a Visible “Sermon” to the World   97
Michael Kurek:  Awakening Things Within: Music and Christian Fairytales  117
Rintje Theoren Tolsma:  Artistic Genius and Freedom of Creativity in Kant’s Critique of Judgement   129
Kahar Wahab Sarumi:  Between Ephemerality and Eternality: Beauty and Transcendence in Arabic Mystical Poetry   147

“Joey” Alan Le:  Martial Arts in Search of Transcendence: Beauty, Truth and Goodness in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu   172
BOOK REVIEWS   195
BOOKS RECEIVED   220
CALL FOR PAPERS:  JIS Symposium 2023: Culture and Its Discontents   221

CALL FOR PAPERS:  JIS XXXV 2023: The American Century & Its Challenges   222
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“Consider the Lilies of the Field . . . “
Matthew 6: 28-29

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