Democracy and Beauty: The Political Aesthetics of W. E. B. Du Bois

by Robert Gooding-Williams

What is beauty, and what is its political function? In what ways might it help undermine white supremacy and cultivate a more democratic political culture? Democracy and Beauty shines a light on W. E. B. Du Bois's attempts to answer these questions during the decade surrounding the First World War and, in so doing, offers a groundbreaking account of the philosopher's aesthetics.

Robert Gooding-Williams reconstructs Du Bois's defense...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231220022
• ISBN13: 9780231220026
• Release Date: April 2025
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 240 Pages