Reconstituting the body politic : enlightenment, public culture and the invention of aesthetic autonomy
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Reconstituting the body politic : enlightenment, public culture and the invention of aesthetic autonomy
(Kritik : German literary theory and cultural studies)
Wayne State University Press, c1999
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-280) and index
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The concept that "art" must have no instrumental function is traditionally traced to Kant's "Critique of Judgment". The author of this text proposes that this concept marks not a withdrawal from the political realm, but the ultimate embodiment of Enlightenment political culture.
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