Critical Communities and Aesthetic Practices - Dialogues with Tony O'Connor on Society, Art, and Friendship (Paperback, 2012 ed.)

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.

General

Imprint:	Springer
Country of origin:	Netherlands
Series:	Contributions to Phenomenology, 64
Release date:	2014
First published:	2012
Editors:	Francis Halsall • Julia Jansen • Sinead Murphy
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	212
Edition:	2012 ed.
ISBN-13:	978-9400793552
Categories:	Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Aesthetics Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Social & political philosophy Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Aesthetics Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Social & political philosophy
LSN:	9400793553
Barcode:	9789400793552

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