The Aesthetics of Democracy

Eighteenth-Century Literature and Political Economy
Softcover Nachdruck of the original 1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-3-319-81641-8
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 170 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 236 g

This book offers an original and interdisciplinary interpretation of the relation between aesthetics and modern liberal democracy, uniting the fields of art theory with the democratic political philosophy and modern liberal economic theory. The central argument of the books offers an explanation of the theoretical limitations of the contemporary discourse concerning “political art,” while at the same time illustrating historically how the European and American discourse of modern democracy and political economy developed an explicit stance against the conflation of art and politics. Exposing the unstated presuppositions about our modern liberal democracy, Craig Carson opens a new field of inquiry concerning the role of art, media, and televisual “theater” central to modern politics.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Carson, Craig

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Demokratie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftspolitik, politische Ökonomie
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Wirtschafts- und Finanzpolitik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1: “Biopolitics and the Image Obscured”.- Chapter 2: The Image of Suffering.- Chapter 3: “Only the Shape of Man”.- Chapter 4: “Defoe’s Catastrophic Prose,”.

Über Autor(innen)

Craig Carson is Assistant Professor of English at Adelphi University, USA.