Aesthetic Democracy

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Thomas Docherty

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Aesthetic Democracy argues that art and the aesthetic in general are the founding condition of the possibility of establishing social and political democracy. The book examines contemporary criticism and finds that it is historically shaped by colonialism, and that it sets up an opposition of east and west that shapes all contemporary cultural politics. The author argues for a way of outwitting this potentially dangerous struggle of east and west grounded in an aestheticism and a validation of sensory experience. Docherty proposes a new model of cultural critique, based on a revitalized and positively valorized notion of "hypocrisy", whose roots lie in Machiavelli, but whose contemporary strength lies in its potential for an ethical encounter with alterity as such.

Author Biography:

Thomas Docherty is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Warwick.

Release date NZ

February 13th, 2006

Author

Thomas Docherty

Audiences

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Professional & Vocational
Undergraduate

Pages

192

Dimensions

151x228x12

ISBN-13

9780804751896

Product ID

7559072

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