02631nam 22005295 450 991025506640332120240724134928.09783319339634331933963X10.1007/978-3-319-33963-4(CKB)3710000001418372(DE-He213)978-3-319-33963-4(MiAaPQ)EBC4890252(Perlego)3497620(EXLCZ)99371000000141837220170627d2017 u| 0engurnn|008mamaatxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe Aesthetics of Democracy Eighteenth-Century Literature and Political Economy /by Craig Carson1st ed. 2017.Cham :Springer International Publishing :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2017.1 online resource (V, 170 p.) 9783319339627 3319339621 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,".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.Literature, Modern18th centuryEuropean literatureAmericaLiteraturesEighteenth-Century LiteratureEuropean LiteratureNorth American LiteratureLiterature, ModernEuropean literature.AmericaLiteratures.Eighteenth-Century Literature.European Literature.North American Literature.809.033Carson Craigauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut937030BOOK9910255066403321The Aesthetics of Democracy2110433UNINA