Before Beauty - Hinderer Cruz, Max Jorge
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A critical revision of philosophical aesthetics from the vantage point of ongoing anticolonial struggles. While the poets and thinkers of the Enlightenment claimed that before beauty, all humans would be free and equal, Max Jorge Hinderer Cruz contends there is an unwritten history of philosophical aesthetics that is interlinked with sixteenth-century colonialism and the emergence of global capitalism. As Cruz argues in Before Beauty, we won't be able to understand the conflicting histories of aesthetics without recognizing the impact that the colonial economy--and the racial categories it…mehr

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A critical revision of philosophical aesthetics from the vantage point of ongoing anticolonial struggles. While the poets and thinkers of the Enlightenment claimed that before beauty, all humans would be free and equal, Max Jorge Hinderer Cruz contends there is an unwritten history of philosophical aesthetics that is interlinked with sixteenth-century colonialism and the emergence of global capitalism. As Cruz argues in Before Beauty, we won't be able to understand the conflicting histories of aesthetics without recognizing the impact that the colonial economy--and the racial categories it engendered--had on European perceptions of beauty. Nor will we be able to assume political responsibility when appreciating a work of art without acknowledging the claims for self-determination, justice, and reparations by Indigenous and Afrodiasporic people in Latin America and the Caribbean at the beginning of the twenty-first century.
Autorenporträt
Max Jorge Hinderer Cruz is a Bolivian-German writer, editor and philosopher (PhD) based in La Paz, Bolivia. He is director of the Independent Studies Program (PEI) at the Museum of Contemporary Art Barcelona (MACBA). Previously he was director of the National Museum of Art (MNA) in La Paz, and Artistic Director of Akademie der Künste der Welt (ADKDW) in Cologne. He is author of the books LA DEUDA CON LA BELLEZA: Textos 2019-2021 (2022), and Hélio Oiticica & Neville D'Almeida: Blockexperiments in Cosmococa--Program in Progress (with Sabeth Buchmann, Afterall 2013). He regularly publishes in the La Paz based newspaper La Razón.