The Art of Democracy: Towards Plural Hegemony Contributor(s): Svetlichnaja, Julia (Author) |
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ISBN: 1138925640 ISBN-13: 9781138925649 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $142.50 Product Type: Hardcover Published: January 2026 This item may be ordered no more than 25 days prior to its publication date of January 5, 2026 |
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BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Political Ideologies - Democracy - Philosophy | Political |
Series: Routledge Advances in Democratic Theory |
Physical Information: 176 pages |
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Publisher Description: Art's obsession with politics is a problem, even a paradox. The more art there is, the less it shares with the political. Even the radical character of contemporary artistic practices revolves around the idea that there are no alternatives to liberal democracy and capitalist pluralism without risking another dystopia - a paradigm that, in the artistic realm, is articulated as the opposition between modernism and postmodernism. Indeed, with three recent transformations of our understanding; of emancipatory politics; the nature of aesthetics; and the post-Fordist transformation of capitalism, many argue that we overcome the fundamental challenges of aesthetic and political modernities and encounter 'things' beyond power relations and beyond aesthetics. However, even at its most creative, art has more in common with hegemony than capitalism. At every hegemonic turn, artwork is directed against itself, only to reinstate another art form in order to continue.
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