{"product_id":"a-democratic-enlightenment-9781478007654","title":"A Democratic Enlightenment","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDrawing 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“In a political climate marked by right-wing celebrations of misogyny, xenophobia, oligarchy, racism, militarism, and extractive capitalism, you might be skeptical of a book about ‘the reconciliation image.’ But Morton Schoolman, in a startling and effective admixture of Whitman's democratic ethos, Adorno's defense of a specifically aesthetic kind of critical reason, and contemporary films, contends that now is the time for new thinking about ‘reconciliation.’ This is an original, creative, provocative, rewarding, and timely book.” -- Jane Bennett, author of * Influx and Efflux: Writing Up with Walt Whitman *\u003cbr\u003e“Morton Schoolman is an accomplished, erudite, and wonderfully playful reader of both Whitman and Adorno. His insightful account of a ‘democratic enlightenment’ through encounters with images opens spaces for politics that we wouldn’t otherwise see. I didn’t want to put this provocative book down!” -- Lori Jo Marso, author of * Politics with Beauvoir: Freedom in the Encounter *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments  ix\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Past as Prologue  1\u003cbr\u003e Part I. The Reconciliation Image in Whitman\u003cbr\u003e 1. \u003ci\u003eDemocratic Vistas\u003c\/i\u003e: Democratic Enlightenment and Reconciliation  47\u003cbr\u003e 2. Whitman's Discovery: Aesthetic Education through the Visual Image  79\u003cbr\u003e First Bridge. \u003ci\u003eThinking with\u003c\/i\u003e Adorno \u003ci\u003eagainst\u003c\/i\u003e Adorno  119\u003cbr\u003e Part II. The Reconciliation Image in Adorno\u003cbr\u003e 3. Aesthetic Reason and Reflexivity, Twin Economies and Democratic Effects  145\u003cbr\u003e 4. Aesthetic Analogues: Art and Film  166\u003cbr\u003e Second Bridge: The Reconciliation Image versus the Narrative Structure of Film  199\u003cbr\u003e Part III. The Reconciliation Image in Film\u003cbr\u003e 5. \u003ci\u003eThe Help\u003c\/i\u003e: Entangled in a Becoming  231\u003cbr\u003e 6. \u003ci\u003eGentlemen's Agreement\u003c\/i\u003e: Beyond Tolerance  249\u003cbr\u003e 7. The Reconciliation Image in Film as Universal Art Form  273\u003cbr\u003e Notes  281\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography  301\u003cbr\u003e Index  309","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408981434711,"sku":"9781478007654","price":98.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781478007654.jpg?v=1730504955","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/a-democratic-enlightenment-9781478007654","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}