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UNINA9910954114303321 |
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Castronovo Russ <1965-> |
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Beautiful democracy : aesthetics and anarchy in a global era / / Russ Castronovo |
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Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2007 |
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9786612069697 |
9781282069695 |
1282069691 |
9780226096308 |
0226096300 |
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[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (302 pages) : illustrations |
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Aesthetics, American |
Arts - United States |
Democracy - United States |
United States Civilization |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-270) and index. |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Aesthetics and the Anarchy of Global Culture -- 1. Flowers and Billy Clubs -- 2. American Literature Internationale -- 3. Beauty Along the Color Line -- 4 . "bombs of laughter" -- 5. Geo-Aesthetics -- Afterword -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index |
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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 provi |
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UNIORUON00211461 |
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Autore |
EAGLESTONE, Robert |
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Ethical criticism : reading after Levinas / Robert Eaglestone |
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Edinburgh, : Edinburgh University Press, c1997 |
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CRITICA - Aspetti morali |
Letteratura e morale |
LEVINAS EMMANUEL |
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