The Aesthetics of Democracy: Eighteenth-Century Literature and Political Economy

by Craig Carson

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319816411
• ISBN13: 9783319816418
• Release Date: July 2018
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 170 Pages
• Weight: 0.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.8" x 8.3"