Art, Education, and the Democratic Commitment - A Defense of State Support for the Arts (Paperback, Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2000)

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."

General

Imprint:	Springer
Country of origin:	Netherlands
Series:	Philosophical Studies in Contemporary Culture, 7
Release date:	December 2010
First published:	2000
Authors:	D.T. Schwartz
Dimensions:	240 x 160 x 10mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	181
Edition:	Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2000
ISBN-13:	978-90-481-5450-0
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > The arts: general issues > General Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Social & political philosophy Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Social & political philosophy Promotions
LSN:	90-481-5450-2
Barcode:	9789048154500

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