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Record Nr.

UNINA9910255066403321

Autore

Carson Craig

Titolo

The Aesthetics of Democracy [[electronic resource] ] : Eighteenth-Century Literature and Political Economy / / by Craig Carson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2017

ISBN

3-319-33963-X

Edizione

[1st ed. 2017.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (V, 170 p.)

Disciplina

809.033

Soggetti

Literature, Modern—18th century

European literature

America—Literatures

Eighteenth-Century Literature

European Literature

North American Literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

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,”.

Sommario/riassunto

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.