Politics and aesthetics in the arts
"This volume brings together new essays 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 among variously 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 various 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."--Jacket
Print Book, English, 2000
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge [England], 2000
Aufsatzsammlung
xi, 268 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780521454186, 9780521141963, 0521454182, 0521141966
40707003
Contesting the arts : politics and aesthetics / Salim Kemal and Ivan Gaskell
"From the stage to the state" : politics, form, and performance in the Elizabethan theatre / Louis Montrose
Republican beauty, sublime democracy : civic humanism in Gadamer and Rawls / J.M. Bernstein
Travelers, colonizers, and the aesthetics of self-conception : Denis Diderot on the perils of detachment / Anthony Pagden
The aesthetics of nationalism and the limits of culture / David Carroll
Peripheral visions : class, cultural aspiration, and the artisan community in mid-nineteenth-century France / Neil McWilliam
The war of tradition : Virginia Woolf and the temper of criticism / Daniel Cottom
The discomfort of strangeness and beauty : art, politics, and aesthetics / Peter de Bolla
The political autonomy of contemporary art : the case of the 1993 Whitney Biennial / Michael Kelly