Description: Further DetailsTitle: Aesthetics and Its DiscontentsCondition: NewEAN: 9780745646312ISBN: 9780745646312Publisher: Polity PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 07/17/2009Item Height: 216mmItem Length: 139mmItem Width: 14mmItem Weight: 206gLanguage: EnglishDescription: Translated by Steven Corcoran Only yesterday aesthetics stood accused of concealing cultural games of social distinction. Now it is considered a parasitic discourse from which artistic practices must be freed. But aesthetics is not a discourse. It is an historical regime of the identification of art. This regime is paradoxical, because it founds the autonomy of art only at the price of suppressing the boundaries separating its practices and its objects from those of everyday life and of making free aesthetic play into the promise of a new revolution. Aesthetics is not a politics by accident but in essence. But this politics operates in the unresolved tension between two opposed forms of politics: the first consists in transforming art into forms of collective life, the second in preserving from all forms of militant or commercial compromise the autonomy that makes it a promise of emancipation. This constitutive tension sheds light on the paradoxes and transformations of critical art. It also makes it possible to understand why today?s calls to free art from aesthetics are misguided and lead to a smothering of both aesthetics and politics in ethics.Country/Region of Manufacture: GBGenre: Philosophy & SpiritualityAuthor: Jacques RancièreRelease Year: 2009 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Aesthetics and Its Discontents
Title: Aesthetics and Its Discontents
EAN: 9780745646312
ISBN: 9780745646312
Release Date: 07/17/2009
Release Year: 2009
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Genre: Philosophy & Spirituality
Number of Pages: 176 Pages
Publication Name: Aesthetics and Its Discontents
Language: English
Publisher: Polity Press
Subject: Art & Politics, General, Aesthetics
Publication Year: 2009
Item Height: 0.6 in
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 7.2 Oz
Subject Area: Art, Philosophy
Item Length: 8.4 in
Author: Jacques Rancière
Item Width: 5.4 in
Format: Trade Paperback