Politics and Aesthetics in the Arts

An interdisciplinary collection of new essays exploring the interaction between politics and the arts.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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.

Zusammenfassung

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.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Salim Kemal
• Mitarbeit: Ivan Gaskell (Herausgeber), Gaskell Ivan (Herausgeber), Salim Kemal (Herausgeber), Kemal Salim (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Cambridge Academic
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 24.02.2000
• EAN: 9780521454186
• ISBN: 978-0-521-45418-6
• Abmessung: 152 mm x 229 mm x 17 mm
• Gewicht: 550 g
• Serien: Cambridge Studies in Philosoph; Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and the Arts
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Kunst > Allgemeines, Lexika; Sachbuch > Philosophie, Religion > Philosophie: Allgemeines, Nachschlagewerke; Theory of art, POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, PHILOSOPHY / Aesthetics, ART / Criticism & Theory, Philosophy: aesthetics, Politics and government