"Critical Communities and Aesthetic Practices" brings together
eminent international philosophers to discuss the inter-dependence
of critical communities and aesthetic practices. Their
contributions share a hermeneutical commitment to dialogue, both as
a model for critique and as a generator of community.
Two conclusions emerge: The first is that one's relationships
with others will always be central in determining the social,
political, and artistic forms that philosophical self-reflection
will take. The second is that our practices of aesthetic judgment
are bound up with our efforts as philosophers to adapt ourselves
and our objects of interest to the inescapably historical and
indeterminate conditions of experience.
The papers collected here address the issue that critical
communities and aesthetic practices are never politically neutral
and can never be abstracted from their particular contexts. It is
for this reason that the contributors investigate the politics, not
of laws, parties or state constitutions, but of open, indefinably
critical communities such as audiences, peers and friends.
"Critical Communities and Aesthetic Practices" is distinctive in
providing a current selection of prominent positions, written for
this volume. Together, these comprise a pluralist, un-homogenized
collection that brings into focus contemporary debates on critical
and aesthetic practices.
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