The aesthetics of democracy : eighteenth-century literature and political economy / Craig Carson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Carson, Craig, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political science--Philosophy.

Political science.

Democracy--History--18th century.

Democracy.

Aesthetics--History.

Aesthetics.

History.

Democracy and the arts.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

v, 170 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

[Cham, Switzerland] : Palgrave Macmillan, [2017]

Summary:

This book offers an original and interdisciplinary interpretation of the relation between aesthetics and modern liberal democracy, uniting the fields of art theory with the democratic political philosophy and modern liberal economic theory. The central argument of the books offers an explanation of the theoretical limitations of the contemporary discourse concerning "political art," while at the same time illustrating historically how the European and American discourse of modern democracy and political economy developed an explicit stance against the conflation of art and politics. Exposing the unstated presuppositions about our modern liberal democracy, Craig Carson opens a new field of inquiry concerning the role of art, media, and televisual "theater" central to modern politics.

Contents:

Democracy and the war of images: an introduction

Biopolitics and the image obscured

The divided people

The image of suffering

Only the shape of men

Infinite accumulation.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-166) and indexes.

ISBN:

3319339621

9783319339627

OCLC:

946461462