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What is the role of art in modern society? To what extent are the
beautiful and the morally good intertwined? Hegel's Political
Aesthetics explores Hegel's take on these ever-relevant
philosophical questions and investigates three key themes: art's
contribution to modern ethical life, the loss of art's authority in
modern ethical life and ways of thinking beyond Hegel's analysis of
art's role in society. The aesthetic is explored through the lens
of German Idealism from Kant to Hegel, ultimately placing ethics
and morality at the forefront of this debate. The authors explore
Hegel's take on Kant's conception by historicizing what it means to
be responsible to others, which for Hegel means being free within
the norms of society, within what he calls ethical life. As a set
of concrete social arrangements designed for finite human beings,
however, ethical life falls short of actualizing freedom
absolutely. The themes in this volume are motivated by a central
ambivalence in Hegel's thinking about modernity. The question of
freedom sits at the forefront of this text, alongside the relation
between art and the spirit. This book will be of particular
interest to philosophers of aesthetics, politics and ethics.
What is the role of art in modern society? To what extent are the
beautiful and the morally good intertwined? Hegel's Political
Aesthetics explores Hegel's take on these ever-relevant
philosophical questions and investigates three key themes: art's
contribution to modern ethical life, the loss of art's authority in
modern ethical life and ways of thinking beyond Hegel's analysis of
art's role in society. The aesthetic is explored through the lens
of German Idealism from Kant to Hegel, ultimately placing ethics
and morality at the forefront of this debate. The authors explore
Hegel's take on Kant's conception by historicizing what it means to
be responsible to others, which for Hegel means being free within
the norms of society, within what he calls ethical life. As a set
of concrete social arrangements designed for finite human beings,
however, ethical life falls short of actualizing freedom
absolutely. The themes in this volume are motivated by a central
ambivalence in Hegel's thinking about modernity. The question of
freedom sits at the forefront of this text, alongside the relation
between art and the spirit. This book will be of particular
interest to philosophers of aesthetics, politics and ethics.
Revolutionary theories from Marx onward have often struggled to
unite the psychological commitments of individuals- understood as
ideological- with the larger ethical or political goals of a social
movement. As a psychiatrist, social theorist, and revolutionary,
Frantz Fanon attempted to connect the ideological and the
political. Fanon's work gives both a psychological explanation of
the origins of ideology and seeks to restore the individual to
autonomy and political agency. This book explores the deeper
philosophical foundations of Fanon's project in order to understand
the depths of Fanon's contribution to the theory of the subject and
to social theory. It also demonstrates how Fanon's model makes it
possible to understand the political dimensions of Freudian
psychoanalysis and the psychological dimensions of Hegel's social
theory. This is the first book to bring these two central
dimensions of Fanon's thought into dialogue. It uses Fanon's
position to provide a deeper interpretation of key texts in Freud
and Hegel and by uniting these three thinkers contributes to the
creolization of all three thinkers.
Revolutionary theories from Marx onward have often struggled to
unite the psychological commitments of individuals- understood as
ideological- with the larger ethical or political goals of a social
movement. As a psychiatrist, social theorist, and revolutionary,
Frantz Fanon attempted to connect the ideological and the
political. Fanon's work gives both a psychological explanation of
the origins of ideology and seeks to restore the individual to
autonomy and political agency. This book explores the deeper
philosophical foundations of Fanon's project in order to understand
the depths of Fanon's contribution to the theory of the subject and
to social theory. It also demonstrates how Fanon's model makes it
possible to understand the political dimensions of Freudian
psychoanalysis and the psychological dimensions of Hegel's social
theory. This is the first book to bring these two central
dimensions of Fanon's thought into dialogue. It uses Fanon's
position to provide a deeper interpretation of key texts in Freud
and Hegel and by uniting these three thinkers contributes to the
creolization of all three thinkers.
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