Schoolman A Democratic Enlightenment

The Reconciliation Image, Aesthetic Education, Possible Politics
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-1-4780-0905-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 336 Seiten

Drawing on Whitman and Adorno, Morton Schoolman proposes aesthetic education through film as a way to redress the political violence inflicted on difference society constructs as its racialized, gendered, Semitic, and sexualized other.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Schoolman, Morton

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: Past as Prologue 1
Part I. The Reconciliation Image in Whitman
1. Democratic Vistas: Democratic Enlightenment and Reconciliation 47
2. Whitman's Discovery: Aesthetic Education through the Visual Image 79
First Bridge. Thinking with Adorno against Adorno 119
Part II. The Reconciliation Image in Adorno
3. Aesthetic Reason and Reflexivity, Twin Economies and Democratic Effects 145
4. Aesthetic Analogues: Art and Film 166
Second Bridge: The Reconciliation Image versus the Narrative Structure of Film 199
Part III. The Reconciliation Image in Film
5. The Help: Entangled in a Becoming 231
6. Gentlemen's Agreement: Beyond Tolerance 249
7. The Reconciliation Image in Film as Universal Art Form 273
Notes 281
Bibliography 301
Index 309

Über Autor(innen)

Morton Schoolman is Professor of Political Science at the State University of New York at Albany and author of Reason and Horror: Critical Theory, Democracy, and Aesthetic Individuality and The Imaginary Witness: The Critical Theory of Herbert Marcuse.