Art, Politics, and Development: How Linear Perspective Shaped Policies in the Western World - Couverture rigide

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Lepenies, Philipp H

 
9781439910849: Art, Politics, and Development: How Linear Perspective Shaped Policies in the Western World
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ISBN 10 : 1439910847 ISBN 13 : 9781439910849
Editeur : Temple University Press,U.S., 2013

Synopsis

In his groundbreaking study, Art, Politics and Development, Philipp Lepenies contributes to the ongoing controversy about why the track record of development aid is so dismal. He asserts that development aid policies are grounded in a specific way of literally looking at the world. This "worldview" is the result of a mental conditioning that began with the invention of linear perspective in Renaissance art. It not only triggered the emergence of modern science and brought forth our Western notion of progress, but ultimately, development as well.Art, Politics, and Development examines this process by pulling from a range of disciplines, including art history, philosophy, literature, and social science. Lepenies not only explains the shortcomings of modern aid in a novel fashion, he also proposes how aid could be done differently.

In the series Politics, History and Social Change, edited by John C. Torpey

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À propos de l?auteur

Philipp H. Lepenies is Senior Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS) in Potsdam, Germany.

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Éditeur
Temple University Press,U.S.
Date d'édition
2013
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1439910847
ISBN 13 
9781439910849
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
214
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