Mohlo by se vám také líbit

Informovat o naskladnění knihy

Více informací o knize Beautiful Democracy

• Parametry knihy
• Anotace
• Oblíbené z jiného soudku

Nákupem získáte 103 bodů

Anotace knihy

The photographer and reformer Jacob Riis once wrote, "I have seen an armful of daisies keep the peace of a block better than a policeman and his club." Riis was not alone in his belief that beauty could tame urban chaos, but are aesthetic experiences always a social good? Could aesthetics also inspire violent crime, working-class unrest, and racial murder? To answer these questions, Russ Castronovo turns to those who debated claims that art could democratize culture - civic reformers, anarchists, novelists, civil rights activists, and college professors - to reveal that beauty provides unexpected occasions for radical, even revolutionary, political thinking. "Beautiful Democracy" explores the intersection of beauty and violence by examining university lectures and course materials on aesthetics from a century ago along with riots, acts of domestic terrorism, magic lantern exhibitions, and other public spectacles. Philosophical aesthetics, realist novels, urban photography, and black periodicals, Castronovo argues, inspired and instigated all sorts of collective social endeavors, from the progressive nature of tenement reform to the horrors of lynching. Discussing Jane Addams, W. E. B. Du Bois, Charlie Chaplin, William Dean Howells, and Riis as aesthetic theorists in the company of Kant and Schiller, "Beautiful Democracy" ultimately suggests that the distance separating academic thinking and popular wisdom about social transformation is narrower than we generally suppose.

Parametry knihy

Zařazení knihy Knihy v angličtině Society & social sciences Society & culture: general Social issues & processes

• Plný název: Beautiful Democracy
• Podnázev: Aesthetics and Anarchy in a Global Era
• Autor: Russ Castronovo
• Jazyk: Angličtina
• Vazba: Brožovaná
• Počet stran: 272
• EAN: 9780226096292
• ISBN: 0226096297
• ID: 04543257
• Nakladatelství: The University of Chicago Press
• Hmotnost: 454 g
• Rozměry: 23 × 16 × 18 mm
• Datum vydání: 01. September 2007

Oblíbené z jiného soudku

---

---

---