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Aesthetic Democracy
Thomas Docherty
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Description for Aesthetic Democracy
Hardback. Aesthetic Democracy argues that the possibility of social and political democracy depends primarily upon art and aesthetics, and that it is art which determines the possibilities of human freedom. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 19. Weight in Grams: 395.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804751889
SKU
V9780804751889
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About Thomas Docherty
Thomas Docherty is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Warwick.
Reviews for Aesthetic Democracy
"Docherty has previously published a number of distinguished books, but this one might be seen as the culmination of his years of thought and work on the humanities and their social roles... The scope of Docherty's knowledge is truly amazing... [He] writes with a quite unusual combination of passionate commitment and temperate clarity about difficult matters." -J. Hillis Miller,University of ... Read more