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9780521454186

Politics and Aesthetics in the Arts

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    9780521454186

  • ISBN10:

    0521454182

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2000-03-13
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Summary

This volume brings together new 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. Politics is an elastic concept, covering an oceanic breadth of mechanisms for conducting relations between empowered groups, and these essays offer a range of perspectives, including nations, classes, and gendered subjects, which examine the imbrication of politics with arts. Together they demonstrate the need to counteract the reductionist view of the relationship between politics and the arts which prevails in different ways in both philosophy and critical theory, and suggest that the irreducibility of the aesthetic must prompt us to reconceive the political as it relates to human cultural activity.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations
ix
List of contributors
x
Editors' acknowledgments xi
Contesting the arts: politics and aesthetics
1(10)
Salim Kemal
Ivan Gaskell
``From the stage to the state'': politics, form, and performance in the Elizabethan theatre
11(39)
Louis Montrose
Republican beauty, sublime democracy: civic humanism in Gadamer and Rawls
50(35)
J. M. Bernstein
Travelers, colonizers, and the aesthetics of self-conception: Denis Diderot on the perils of detachment
85(27)
Anthony Pagden
The aesthetics of nationalism and the limits of the culture
112(28)
David Carroll
Peripheral visions: class, cultural aspiration, and the artisan community in mid-nineteenth-century France
140(34)
Neil McWilliam
The war of tradition: Virginia Woolf and the temper of criticism
174(30)
Daniel Cottom
The discomfort of strangeness and beauty: art, politics, and aesthetics
204(17)
Peter De Bolla
The political autonomy of contemporary art: the case of the 1993 Whitney Biennial
221(43)
Michael Kelly
Index 264

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