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Aesthetic Democracy

Aesthetic Democracy

Docherty, Thomas

Hardcover

PhilosophyLiterary CriticismGeneral Political Science

ISBN10: 0804751889
ISBN13: 9780804751889
Publisher: Stanford Univ Pr
Published: Feb 13 2006
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.87
Height: 0.73 Width: 5.96 Depth: 9.28
Language: English

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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