The Aesthetics of Democracy. Eighteenth-Century Literature and Political Economy.
Craig Carson
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Hardback. Num Pages: 206 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148. .
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland
Number of pages
206
Condition
New
Number of Pages
170
Place of Publication
Cham, Switzerland
ISBN
9783319339627
SKU
V9783319339627
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About Craig Carson
Craig Carson is Assistant Professor of English at Adelphi University, USA.
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