Philipp H. Lepenies

Art, Politics, and Development

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Produktbeschreibung

In his groundbreaking study, Art, Politics and Development, Philipp Lepenies contributes to the ongoing controversy about why the track record of development aid is so dismal. He asserts that development aid policies are grounded in a specific way of literally looking at the world. This "worldview" is the result of a mental conditioning that began with the invention of linear perspective in Renaissance art. It not only triggered the emergence of modern science and brought forth our Western notion of progress, but ultimately, development as well. Art, Politics, and Development examines this process by pulling from a range of disciplines, including art history, philosophy, literature, and social science. Lepenies not only explains the shortcomings of modern aid in a novel fashion, he also proposes how aid could be done differently. In the series Politics, History and Social Change, edited by John C. Torpey

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Produktdetails

• Politics History & Social Chan
• Verlag: Temple University Press
• New
• Seitenzahl: 214
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 154mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 428g
• ISBN-13: 9781439910849
• ISBN-10: 1439910847
• Artikelnr.: 39224540

Autorenporträt

Philipp H. Lepenies is Senior Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS) in Potsdam, Germany.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction
1. Perspective: A Window to the World and to the Future
PERSPECTIVE
Medieval Art, Optics, and Perspectives  • The Invention of Perspective: The
Mirror  • From the “Intercisione” to the Vanishing Point • The Window • The
Role of Mathematics • Rediscovery or Invention
Anticipation of a New Weltanschauung: Transgressing Medieval Boundaries
The Iconic Gaze • The Window Revisited • Iconic Space, Subjective
Objectivity, and the Invention of Infinity • Friction with Religion • The
Artist as Creator • The Horizon • The World and the Future • A Case in
Point: The Città Ideale of Berlin
2. From Art to Worldview
The Disenchantment of the Physical World
The Universe Open to Our Gaze • The Order to Conquer Nature • Everything
Has a Mathematical Counterpart • The Predictable Universe • Control through
Calculation 
Toward a New Horizon: The Discovery of Linear Time and the Idea of Progress
The Threat of Doomsday Comes to an End • Circularity and Linearity •
Progress as the Advancement of Knowledge • Turgot and the Progress of the
Human Mind
Condorcet: From the Linear Perspective Worldview to the Development
Mind-set
A Life of Science, Action, and Tragedy • Social Mathematics • The Esquisse:
The Philosophy of Future Progress • The Future and 
the Others • Mathematics, the Future, and Action
The Notion of the “Other” prior to the Esquisse
Alternative Views of Otherness • Slavery and the Société des Amis des
Noirs 
The Development Mind-set Further Concretized: The Idea of Civilizing and
Civilization
The Meaning of Civilization • The Destiny of All Nations • The Need for
Education and Educators • Civilizing by Teaching Perspective
Linear Perspective and the Development Mind-set: A Summary of Key Concepts
3. Modern Development
The Contemporary Development Mind-set
Us and Them • Endless and Dynamic Progress • The Aim of All Aid
Educating the “Others”
Development as Knowledge Transfer • Knowledge Transfer in Historical
Perspective
The “Rage de Vouloir Conclure”
Knowledge Transfer as a Hindrance to Development and Change • The Visiting
Economist Syndrome 115 • Anthropological Views • The Earth Is Not Flat •
Planners • Unhelpful Helpers • Summary
4. Counterperspectives
Resistance to the Perspective Worldview
Antiperspective Movements in Art History
Arab Views • The Perspective Wars of Paris • Through the Eye of a Cow:
Rationalist versus Empiricist Perspective • Summary
Proposals for Development Alternatives
Reversals • Searchers • Midwives • Possibilism
A Nonlinear Approach
Nonlinearity • Challenges • The Way Forward: Self-Critical Historical
Awareness and Knowledge Coalitions
Conclusion
Notes
References
Index