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Art, Education, and the Democratic Commitment - A Defense of State Support for the Arts (Hardcover, 2000 ed.)
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Art, Education, and the Democratic Commitment - A Defense of State Support for the Arts (Hardcover, 2000 ed.)
Series: Philosophical Studies in Contemporary Culture, 7
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In reflecting on this book and the process of writing it, the most
pervasive theme I find is that of confluence. I drew much of the
energy needed to write the book from the energy that resides at the
confluence, or nexus, of contrasting ideas. At the most general
level, the topic of arts subsidy offered a means of exploring
simultaneously two of my favorite philosophical subjects-aesthetics
and politics. The risk of a dual focus is of course that you do
neither topic justice. However, the bigger payoff of this strategy
resides in finding new and interesting connections between two
otherwise disparate topics. Developing such connections between art
and politics led directly to many of the book's positive arguments
for subsidy. At a deeper level, the book exploits a confluence of
contrasting philosophical methodologies. The central problem of the
book politically justifying state support of the arts-is cast in
the Anglo American tradition of analytical philosophy. Here
normative arguments of ethics and politics are scrutinized with an
eye toward developing a defensible justification of state action.
Yet while the book initially situates the subsidy problem within
this analytical tradition, its positive arguments for subsidy draw
heavily from the ideas and methods of Continental philosophy.
Rather than adjudicating normative claims of ethical and political
ttuth, the Continental tradition aims at the hermeneutical task of
interpreting and describing sttuctures of human meaning."
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