Heritage, Culture, and Politics in the Postcolony

Informationen zum Autor Daniel Herwitz directs the Institute for the Humanities at the University of Michigan and holds an honorary position at the University of Cape Town. He has written widely in the fields of media! aesthetics! politics! and philosophy! and his most recent book is The Star as Icon: Celebrity in the Age of Mass Consumption! which was named a Choice Outstanding Academic Title. He is also the author! with Lydia Goehr! of The Don Giovanni Moment: Essays on the Legacy of an Opera and the editor! with Michael Kelly! of Action! Art! History: Engagements with Arthur C. Danto. From 1996 to 2002! Herwitz served as chair in philosophy at the University of Natal! Durban! and was embroiled in the South African political transition! which led to his book Race and Reconciliation: Essays from the New South Africa. Long involved with modern Indian art! his 1987 book! Husain! won the country¿s National Book Award. Klappentext The act of remaking one¿s history into a heritage! a conscientiously crafted narrative placed over the past! is a thriving industry in almost every postcolonial culture. This is surprising! given the tainted role of heritage in so much of the history of colonialism. Yet the postcolonial state! like its European predecessor of the eighteenth or nineteenth centuries! deploys heritage institutions and instruments! museums! courts of law! and universities to empower itself with unity! longevity! exaltation of value! origin! and destiny. Bringing the eye of a philosopher! the pen of an essayist! and the experience of a public intellectual to the study of heritage! Herwitz reveals the febrile pitch at which heritage is staked. Herwitz takes the temperature of heritage! showing how destabilizing! ambivalent! and potentially dangerous it is as a producer of contemporary social! aesthetic! and political realities. Heritage is the perfect embodiment of the struggle to seize culture and society at moments of profound social change. Inhaltsverzeichnis PrefaceAcknowledgments1. The Heritage of Heritage2. Recovering and Inventing the Past: M. F. Husain's Live Action Heritage3. Sustaining Heritage Off the Road to Kruger Park4. Monument5. Renaissance and Pandemic6. Tocqueville on the Bridge to NowhereEpilogueNotesIndex ...

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Herwitz, Daniel Herwitz, Daniel Alan Herwitz
• Edition: Columbia University Press
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Relié
• Sortie: 25.09.2012
• EAN: 9780231160186
• ISBN: 978-0-231-16018-6
• Pages: 232
• Catégories: Sciences humaines, art, musique > Philosophie > Général, dictionnaires; Sciences sociales, droit, économie > Sociologie; Ethnic Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, HISTORY / Social History, Philosophy, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Deconstruction, Philosophy: aesthetics, Political science and theory, aesthetics; history