Schoolman Morton Schoolman

Democratic Enlightenment (eBook, PDF)

The Reconciliation Image, Aesthetic Education, Possible Politics

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Produktbeschreibung

In A Democratic Enlightenment Morton Schoolman proposes aesthetic education through film as a way to redress the political violence inflicted on difference that society constructs as its racialized, gendered, Semitic, and sexualized other. Drawing on Voltaire, Diderot, and Schiller, Schoolman reconstructs the genealogical history of what he calls the reconciliation image-a visual model of a democratic ideal of reconciliation he then theorizes through Whitman's prose and poetry and Adorno's aesthetic theory. Analyzing The Help (2011) and Gentleman's Agreement (1947), Schoolman shows how film produces a more advanced image of reconciliation than those originally created by modernist artworks. Each film depicts violence toward racial and ethnic difference while also displaying a reconciliation image that aesthetically educates the public about how the violence of constructing difference as otherness can be overcome. Mounting a democratic enlightenment, the reconciliation image in film illuminates a possible politics for challenging the rise of nationalism's violence toward differences in all their diversity.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. April 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781478009054
• Artikelnr.: 66282357

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