Aesthetic Democracy

by Thomas Docherty

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804751897
• ISBN13: 9780804751896
• Release Date: February 2006
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"