Download or read book Aesthetics of Equality written by Michael J. Shapiro and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Aesthetics of Equality is a theoretical and compositional intervention into the problem of equality. While some of the analysis is concerned with contemporary issues, the book is a primarily a work of political theory and a guide to aesthetic methods, focused on how one can conceive equality issues critically through conceptual engagements with diverse artistic genres: literature, film, music, photography, and architecture. Beginning with the question, "what one can contribute to equality issues by being attentive to aesthetic form in a variety of artistic genres that challenge institutionalized accounts of history," the book proceeds to implement answer by extracting political problematics with analyses of the compositional structures of the textual objects of analysis in the chapter's diverse inquiries. While aesthetic strategies are a main concern in the investigation, it is also shaped by commitments to some substantive political concerns, particularly an attentiveness to persons and voices that tend to be civically invisible The assembled chapters demonstrate the way critical approaches to a variety of media genres make visible and audible the persons and groups that are excluded or disqualified from access to livable domestic space and civic participation. The subject matter is temporally extensive, ranging from ancient Israel and Egypt in the Old Testament's Genesis chapter through the early and later ethno-histories of California and Texas and geographically broad, with chapters on diverse cities: New York, Paris, Istanbul, Los Angeles, and fictional Texas and Mexican border cities"--

Download or read book Christoph Menke written by Christoph Menke and published by Hatje Cantz Verlag. This book was released on 2011-06-10 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christoph Menke (*1958), Professor für Philosophie an der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, beschäftigt sich in seinem Essay mit der Frage, wie oder wo Gleichheit zwischen den Menschen besteht. Der Autor betrachtet verschiedene philosophiegeschichtliche und politische Konzepte, wie die konträren Auffassungen von Faschismus und Kommunismus oder die unterschiedlichen Auslegungen des Zusammenhangs von Gleichheit und Vernunft bei Aristoteles und Descartes. Als Antwort auf die gegenwärtige Debatte über die Frage nach Gleichheit schlägt Menke eine Fortführung in Form einer »ästhetischen Gleichheit« vor, die die Annahme der Aufklärung, nach der alle Menschen über das gleiche Vernunftvermögen verfügen, radikalisiert: Die Gleichheit besteht hier in einer allen Menschen gegebenen Kraft oder Einbildungskraft und bedeutet die Gleichheit der Möglichkeit zur übenden Ausbildung der Vernunft, die »kein eingeborenes, sondern ein sozial erworbenes Vermögen ist«. Sprache: Deutsch/Englisch

Download or read book The Method of Equality written by Jacques Rancière and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2016-06-07 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The development of Rancière’s philosophical work, from his formative years through the political and methodological break with Louis Althusser and the lessons of May 68, is documented here, as are the confrontations with other thinkers, the controversies and occasional misunderstandings. So too are the unity of his work and the distinctive style of his thinking, despite the frequent disconnect between politics and aesthetics and the subterranean movement between categories and works. Lastly one sees his view of our age, and of our age’s many different and competing realities. What we gain in the end is a rich and multi-layered portrait of a life and a body of thought dedicated to the exercise of philosophy and to the emergence of possible new worlds.

Download or read book Aesthetics Equals Politics written by Mark Foster Gage and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2019-04-16 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How aesthetics—understood as a more encompassing framework for human activity—might become the primary discourse for political and social engagement. These essays make the case for a reignited understanding of aesthetics—one that casts aesthetics not as illusory, subjective, or superficial, but as a more encompassing framework for human activity. Such an aesthetics, the contributors suggest, could become the primary discourse for political and social engagement. Departing from the “critical” stance of twentieth-century artists and theorists who embraced a counter-aesthetic framework for political engagement, this book documents how a broader understanding of aesthetics can offer insights into our relationships not only with objects, spaces, environments, and ecologies, but also with each other and the political structures in which we are all enmeshed. The contributors—philosophers, media theorists, artists, curators, writers and architects including such notable figures as Jacques Rancière, Graham Harman, and Elaine Scarry—build a compelling framework for a new aesthetic discourse. The book opens with a conversation in which Rancière tells the volume's editor, Mark Foster Gage, that the aesthetic is “about the experience of a common world.” The essays following discuss such topics as the perception of reality; abstraction in ethics, epistemology, and aesthetics as the “first philosophy”; Afrofuturism; Xenofeminism; philosophical realism; the productive force of alienation; and the unbearable lightness of current creative discourse. Contributors Mark Foster Gage, Jacques Rancière, Elaine Scarry, Graham Harman, Timothy Morton, Ferda Kolatan, Adam Fure, Michael Young, Nettrice R. Gaskins, Roger Rothman, Diann Bauer, Matt Shaw, Albena Yaneva, Brett Mommersteeg, Lydia Kallipoliti, Ariane Lourie Harrison, Rhett Russo, Peggy Deamer, Caroline Picard Matt Shaw, Managing Editor

Download or read book Designing Social Equality written by Mark Foster Gage and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-12-07 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Designing Social Equality, Mark Foster Gage proposes a dramatic realignment between aesthetic thought, politics, social equality, and the design of our physical world. By reconsidering historic concepts from aesthetic philosophy and weaving them with emerging intellectual positions from a variety of disciplines, he sets out to design a more encompassing social theory for how humanity perceives its very reality, and how it might begin to more justly define that reality through new ways of reconsidering the built environment.

Download or read book Equality Politics Aesthetics written by Beth Dynowski and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis addresses the relationship between equality, politics and aesthetics through the thought of Jacques Rancière. Within the Introduction, the context for approaching this relationship is set out and a series of questions are raised in relation to these terms and their relationship to contemporary art practice and education. In order to address these questions and the relationship between these terms, I present an exposition of Rancière's work through three chapters which focus on equality, politics and aesthetics respectively and three of his corresponding texts. Throughout these chapters, I respond to his writing by drawing upon a variety of contemporary theory and criticism, in particular, Oliver Davis, Joseph Tanke, and Gabriel Rockhill among others, and through reflections on my own practice as an artist. Within Chapter One, Rancière's theory of equality is unpacked through his text The Ignorant Schoolmaster: Five Lessons in Intellectual Emancipation in order to come to a full understanding of his theory of equality and its consequences. Chapter Two focuses on Rancière's theory of politics through his text Disagreement, which as the thesis explores, closely relates to and builds upon his work on equality in The Ignorant Schoolmaster. Chapter Three turns to Rancière's theory of aesthetics through his text Dissensus: On Politics & Aesthetics where he describes his particular conception of the politics of aesthetics. Finally, I summarise what was explored through these three chapters in the Conclusion and provide a response to the key questions posed within the Introduction of the thesis.

Download or read book The Politics of Aesthetics written by Jacques Rancière and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-05-08 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Politics of Aesthetics rethinks the relationship between art and politics, reclaiming "aesthetics" from the narrow confines it is often reduced to. Jacques Rancière reveals its intrinsic link to politics by analysing what they both have in common: the delimitation of the visible and the invisible, the audible and the inaudible, the thinkable and the unthinkable, the possible and the impossible. Presented as a set of inter-linked interviews, The Politics of Aesthetics provides the most comprehensive introduction to Rancière's work to date, ranging across the history of art and politics from the Greek polis to the aesthetic revolution of the modern age. Available now in the Bloomsbury Revelations series 10 years after its original publication, The Politics of Aesthetics includes an afterword by Slavoj Zizek, an interview for the English edition, a glossary of technical terms and an extensive bibliography.

Download or read book Space Politics and Aesthetics written by Mustafa Dikec and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2015-06-04 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mustafa Dikec reveals the aesthetic premises that underlie Hannah Arendt, Jean-Luc Nancy and Jacques Ranciere's political thinking, and demonstrates how their politics depend on the construction and apprehension of worlds through spatial forms and distrib

Download or read book The Aesthetics of Equality in Early Greek Poetry written by Ben Radcliffe and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation asks how Homer, Hesiod, and Theognis envision egalitarian alternatives to the conditions of social stratification that prevail in the fictional worlds of early Greek poetry. I track moments when characters relegated to the lower ranks of their societies--beggars, plebian rabble-rousers, and masses of common soldiers--stage challenges to the social and narrative primacy of the texts' protagonists, who invariably belong to the aristocratic or propertied classes. Even though these challenges fail on a narrative level, their rich aesthetic content invites readers to reflect on how each text's poetic priorities could be subverted, reinforced, or transformed in a flattened social landscape. I draw on the work of contemporary philosophers and political theorists to model how egalitarian subjectivity, ways of organizing and belonging together, can surface in diverse venues, including forms of collective militancy, ethical self-fashioning, and aesthetic expression. By locating a space of political contestation in sensory experience, this approach supplements the forms of deliberative politics that are more familiar to Classical Studies scholarship. It thereby offers a novel way of giving voice to the minor characters who pose a challenge from below to the fundamental social premises of early Greek poetry.

Download or read book Aesthetics of equality written by Christoph Menke and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In his essay, Christoph Menke (b.1958), Professor of Philosophy at the Goethe-University, Frankfurt am Main, focuses on the question of how and where there is equality between human beings. The author examines different notions throughout the history of philosophy, as well as varying political concepts, such as the contrarian interpretations of fascism and communism, and the differing reflections on the connection between equality and reason by Aristotle and Descartes. Responding to our current debate about the question of equality, Menke proposes a continuation through an "aesthetics of equality", which radicalizes enlightenment's assumption according to which all people have the same ability to reason. Here, equality consists of a force, an agency to imagine, given to all people -- the equality of the possibility for an exercised and exercising formation of reason, which is not a given but a socially acquired capacity."--Publisher's website.

Download or read book Confronting Universalities written by Mads Anders Baggesgaard and published by Aarhus Universitetsforlag. This book was released on 2011-10-24 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The universe is expanding, the world has gone global, and the US has launched a crusade to export the universal right to democracy to every part of the world. Under the circumstances, it is hardly surprising that the concept of universality is making a remarkable comeback in aesthetic and political theory. The meaning of the world, however, seems more contested than ever. Some denounce it as the ideological guise of particular interests, others as the conceptual equivalent of totalitarianism. But a growing number maintain that universality is an indispensable notion for any genuinely critical aesthetics and politics. Confronting Universalites consists of 12 contributors that examine how contemporary works of art in different media and genres influence, shape, or confront the political realm in both theory and practice by way of the universal. The topics of the essays include depictions of German unification, identity politics of aesthetic taste, contemporary uses of van Gogh, globalized photography, the infamous Danish cartoons, iconic architecture, cinematic representations of migration, the speeches of Nicolas Sarkozy and the interventions of contemporary art in the war in Afghanistan. From various theoretical points of departure, they all demonstrate the importance of the universal in the description of political aesthetic practice in a globalising world.

Download or read book Achievement Equality of Opportunity and Equality of Access written by Laurel Frances Hollowaty and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Discussing Social Equality written by Jae Medland and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-19 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is equality valuable? This question dominates many discussions of social justice, which tend to center on whether certain forms of distributive equality are valuable, such as the equal distribution of primary social goods. But these discussions often neglect what is known as social or relational equality. In an era of diabolical polarization, discussing issues of race and religion in our political discourse often breaks down into further division without a way forward. These are complex topics, therefore deserving of layers of depth in research that informs our understanding. The histories of how we developed to current circumstances on the issues of race and religion affect how we shape our perspective.

Download or read book Aesthetic Realism and the Answer to Racism Update written by Alice Bernstein and published by . This book was released on 2022-05-07 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compilation of essays about racism and the role of art and literature in combating racism

Download or read book Jacques Ranciere and the Contemporary Scene written by Jean-Philippe Deranty and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-02-23 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays aims to investigate the unique place of Jacques Rancière in the contemporary intellectual scene

Download or read book Equality written by Charles Dudley Warner and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-04-25 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Equality" by Charles Dudley Warner. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Download or read book Distributions of the Sensible written by Scott Durham and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2019-06-15 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jacques Rancière’s work is increasingly central to several debates across the humanities. Distributions of the Sensible confronts a question at the heart of his thought: How should we conceive the relationship between the “politics of aesthetics” and the “aesthetics of politics”? Specifically, the book explores the implications of Rancière’s rethinking of the relationship of aesthetic to political democracy from a wide range of critical perspectives. Distributions of the Sensible contains original essays by leading scholars on topics such as Rancière’s relation to political theory, critical theory, philosophical aesthetics, and film. The book concludes with a new essay by Rancière himself that reconsiders the practice of theory between aesthetics and politics.