Politics and Aesthetics in the Arts

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

List 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.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Salim Kemal
• Assisted by: Ivan Gaskell (Editor), Salim Kemal (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.04.2014
• EAN: 9780521454186
• ISBN: 978-0-521-45418-6
• No. of pages: 282
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 235 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 563 g
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Philosoph
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works