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Book SynopsisAesthetic Democracy argues that the possibility of social and political democracy depends primarily upon art and aesthetics, and that it is art which determines the possibilities of human freedom.
Trade Review"Docherty has previously published a number of distinguished books, but this one might be seen as the culmination of his years of thought and work on the humanities and their social roles... The scope of Docherty's knowledge is truly amazing... [He] writes with a quite unusual combination of passionate commitment and temperate clarity about difficult matters." -J. Hillis Miller,University of California, Irvine
Table of Contents@fmct:Contents @toc4:Preface iii Introduction iii @toc1:Section One The colonial condition of criticism @toc2:Chapter 1 On prejudice and forgetting 0 Chapter 2 On urgency and emergency; or, deconstruction not reading politics 000 Chapter 3 declining the west 000 @toc1:Section Two The Potential of Aestheticism @toc2:Chapter 4 Aesthetic education and the demise of experience 000 Chapter 5 The Passion of the Possible 000 Chapter 6 Potential European Democracy 000 @toc1:Section Three: Sovereign Democracy @toc2:Chapter 7 The Ethics of Hypocrisy 000 Chapter 8 Machiavelli and modernity 000 Chapter 9 Aesthetic Democracy: the one and the many 000 @toc4:Notes 000 Index 000
