The administration of aesthetics : censorship, political criticism, and the public sphere / edited by Richard Burt (for the Social Text Collective).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Burt, Richard, 1954-

Social Text Collective.

Series:

Cultural politics (Minneapolis, Minn.) ; v. 7.

Cultural politics ; v. 7

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Censorship.

Criticism--Political aspects.

Criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (412 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis, Minn. : University of Minnesota Press, c1994.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The ""new"" censorship of the arts, some cultural critics say, is just one more item on the ""new"" Right's agenda, and is part and parcel of attempts to regulate sexuality, curtail female reproductive rights, deny civil rights to gays and lesbians, and privatize public institutions. Although they do not contest this assessment, the writers gathered here expose crucial difficulties in using censorship, old and new, as a tool for cultural criticism. Focusing on historical moments ranging from early modern Europe to the postmodern United States, and covering a variety of media from books and pai

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The ""New"" Censorship; Part I. Criticism, Censorship, and the Early Modern Public Sphere; Part II. Censorship and Modernity; Part III. The New Censorship and Postmodernity; Contributors; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8166-8557-6

OCLC:

476093651