Politics and Aesthetics in the Arts

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

Product details

• Authors: Salim Kemal
• Assisted by: Ivan Gaskell (Editor), Gaskell Ivan (Editor), Salim Kemal (Editor), Kemal Salim (Editor), Kemal Salim (Editor)
• Publisher: External catalogues UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2008
• EAN: 9780521141963
• ISBN: 978-0-521-14196-3
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Philosoph; Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and the Arts
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Theory of art, PHILOSOPHY / Aesthetics, ART / Criticism & Theory, Philosophy: aesthetics