Politics and aesthetics in the arts
Author(s)
Bibliographic Information
Politics and aesthetics in the arts
(Cambridge studies in philosophy and the arts)
Cambridge University Press, 2010, c2000
- : pbk.
Available at 1 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Originally published: 2000, This digitally printed version: 2010
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This volume brings together essays from distinguished scholars in a variety of disciplines - philosophy, history, literary studies, art history - to explore various ways in which aesthetics, politics and the arts interact with one another. Politics is an elastic concept, covering an oceanic breadth of mechanisms for conducting relations between empowered groups, and these essays offer a range of perspectives, including nations, classes, and gendered subjects, which examine the imbrication of politics with arts. Together they demonstrate the need to counteract the reductionist view of the relationship between politics and the arts which prevails in different ways in both philosophy and critical theory, and suggest that the irreducibility of the aesthetic must prompt us to reconceive the political as it relates to human cultural activity.
Table of Contents
- List of illustrations
- List of contributors
- Editors' acknowledgements
- 1. Contesting the arts: politics and aesthetics Salim Kemal and Ivan Gaskell
- 2. From the stage to the state: politics, form and performance in the Elizabethan theatre Louis Montrose
- 3. Republican beauty, sublime democracy: civic humanism in Gadamer and Rawls J. M. Bernstein
- 4. Travellers, colonizers, and the aesthetics of self-conception: Denis Diderot on the perils of detachment Anthony Pagden
- 5. The aesthetics of nationalism and the limits of culture David Carroll
- 6. Peripheral visions: class, cultural aspiration, and the artisan community in mid-nineteenth-century France Neil McWilliam
- 7. The war of tradition: Virginia Woolf and the temper of criticism Daniel Cottom
- 8. The discomfort of strangeness and beauty: art, politics, and aesthetics Peter de Bolla
- 9. The political autonomy of contemporary art: the case of the 1993 Whitney Biennial Michael Kelly
- Index.
by "Nielsen BookData"