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Addresses the claim that philosophers are missing the real questions of philosophy leading to their lack of cultural and societal impact. Overview of the philosophical questions dealt with by philosophers in the past; Impact of the ordinary-language philosophy on the field of philosophy; Reason behind the lack of cultural impact or influence of contemporary philosophy and philosophers.

The article presents information about the book "Creative Intuition in Art and Poetry," by Jacques Maritain. The book is now made available in a low-priced paper back edition, is the latest in a series of works published in recent years that have given new life to the almost defunct discipline of aesthetics. Philosophers were exclusively concerned with problems arising from the methodology of the physical sciences, and when art was not looked on as a superior form of amusement, it was relegated to the status of a decidedly inferior form of pseudo-scientific knowledge.