Reconstituting the Body Politic: Enlightenment, Public Culture and the Invention of Aesthetic Autonomy

by Jonathan M. Hess

The concept that art must have no instrumental function is a doctrine traditionally traced back to Kant's Critique of Judgment. In Reconstituting the Body Politic, Jonathan Hess proposes that this... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814327885
• ISBN13: 9780814327883
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Wayne State University Press
• Length: 340 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"