Morton Schoolman: A Democratic Enlightenment

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In A Democratic Enlightenment Morton Schoolman proposes aesthetic education through film as a way to redress the political violence inflicted on difference that society constructs as its racialized, gendered, Semitic, and sexualized other. Drawing on Voltaire, Diderot, and Schiller, Schoolman reconstructs the genealogical history of what he calls the reconciliation image-a visual model of a democratic ideal of reconciliation he then theorizes through Whitman's prose and poetry and Adorno's aesthetic theory. Analyzing The Help (2011) and Gentleman's Agreement (1947), Schoolman shows how film produces a more advanced image of reconciliation than those originally created by modernist artworks. Each film depicts violence toward racial and ethnic difference while also displaying a reconciliation image that aesthetically educates the public about how the violence of constructing difference as otherness can be overcome. Mounting a democratic enlightenment, the reconciliation image in film illuminates a possible politics for challenging the rise of nationalism's violence toward differences in all their diversity.

Über den Autor

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.

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

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2020
Genre:	Importe , Politikwissenschaften
Rubrik:	Wissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13:	9781478008033
ISBN-10:	1478008032
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Schoolman, Morton
Hersteller:	Duke University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	229 x 152 x 20 mm
Von/Mit:	Morton Schoolman
Erscheinungsdatum:	03.04.2020
Gewicht:	0,547 kg