Politics and Aesthetics in the Arts
Salim Kemal editor Ivan Gaskell editor
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Published:1st Apr '10
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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.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. 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.
"...this is in many ways an interesting and exciting volume." Johan Modé, Philosophy in Review
ISBN: 9780521141963
Dimensions: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
Weight: 420g
284 pages