Aesthetic Democracy - Couverture souple

Docherty, Thomas

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0804751897 ISBN 13 : 9780804751896

Editeur : Stanford University Press, 2006

Synopsis

Aesthetic Democracy argues that art and the aesthetic in general are the founding condition of the possibility of establishing social and political democracy. The book examines contemporary criticism and finds that it is historically shaped by colonialism, and that it sets up an opposition of east and west that shapes all contemporary cultural politics. The author argues for a way of outwitting this potentially dangerous struggle of east and west grounded in an aestheticism and a validation of sensory experience. Docherty proposes a new model of cultural critique, based on a revitalized and positively valorized notion of "hypocrisy," whose roots lie in Machiavelli, but whose contemporary strength lies in its potential for an ethical encounter with alterity as such.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Thomas Docherty is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Warwick.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Stanford University Press
• Date d'édition: 2006
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0804751897
• ISBN 13: 9780804751896
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 192
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• Personne responsable: non disponible