Morton Schoolman

A Democratic Enlightenment

The Reconciliation Image, Aesthetic Education, Possible Politics

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Produktbeschreibung

Drawing on Whitman and Adorno, Morton Schoolman proposes aesthetic education through film as a way to redress the political violence inflicted on difference society constructs as its racialized, gendered, Semitic, and sexualized other.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Mai 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 612g
• ISBN-13: 9781478007654
• ISBN-10: 1478007656
• Artikelnr.: 56971152

Autorenporträt

Morton Schoolman is Professor of Political Science at the State University of New York at Albany and author of Reason and Horror: Critical Theory, Democracy, and Aesthetic Individuality and The Imaginary Witness: The Critical Theory of Herbert Marcuse.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  ix
Introduction: Past as Prologue  1
Part I. The Reconciliation Image in Whitman
1. Democratic Vistas: Democratic Enlightenment and Reconciliation  47
2. Whitman's Discovery: Aesthetic Education through the Visual Image  79
First Bridge. Thinking with Adorno against Adorno  119
Part II. The Reconciliation Image in Adorno
3. Aesthetic Reason and Reflexivity, Twin Economies and Democratic Effects 
145
4. Aesthetic Analogues: Art and Film  166
Second Bridge: The Reconciliation Image versus the Narrative Structure of
Film  199
Part III. The Reconciliation Image in Film
5. The Help: Entangled in a Becoming  231
6. Gentlemen's Agreement: Beyond Tolerance  249
7. The Reconciliation Image in Film as Universal Art Form  273
Notes  281
Bibliography  301
Index  309