Name: Aesthetic Democracy
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Author: Docherty, Thomas
ISBN: 9780804751896

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Author

Thomas Docherty

Publisher

Stanford University Press

Year

2006

Language

English

Pages

185

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.8x15.1x1.2 cm

Weight

0.28 kg.

ISBN13

9780804751896

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Synopsis "Aesthetic Democracy "

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.

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