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Politics and Aesthetics in the Arts
Hardback
Main Details
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Politics and Aesthetics in the Arts
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| Authors and Contributors |
Edited by Salim Kemal
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Edited by Ivan Gaskell
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| Series | Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and the Arts |
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| Physical Properties |
| Format:Hardback | | Pages:282 | | Dimensions(mm): Height 229,Width 152 |
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| Category/Genre | Theory of art
Philosophy - aesthetics |
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| ISBN/Barcode |
9780521454186
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| Classifications | Dewey:700.1 |
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| Audience | | Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly | |
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Publishing Details |
| Publisher |
Cambridge University Press
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| Imprint |
Cambridge University Press
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| Publication Date |
24 February 2000 |
| Publication Country |
United Kingdom
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Description
This volume brings together new essays from distinguished scholars in a variety of disciplines - philosophy, history, literary studies, art history - to explore various ways in which aesthetics, politics and the arts interact with one another. Politics is an elastic concept, covering an oceanic breadth of mechanisms for conducting relations between empowered groups, and these essays offer a range of perspectives, including nations, classes, and gendered subjects, which examine the imbrication of politics with arts. Together they demonstrate the need to counteract the reductionist view of the relationship between politics and the arts which prevails in different ways in both philosophy and critical theory, and suggest that the irreducibility of the aesthetic must prompt us to reconceive the political as it relates to human cultural activity.
Reviews"...this is in many ways an interesting and exciting volume." Johan Mode, Philosophy in Review
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