Description: In A Democratic Enlightenment Morton Schoolman proposes aesthetic education through film as a way to redress the political violence inflicted on difference that society constructs as its racialized, gendered, Semitic, and sexualized other. Drawing on Voltaire, Diderot, and Schiller, Schoolman reconstructs the genealogical history of what he calls the reconciliation image-a visual model of a democratic ideal of reconciliation he then theorizes through Whitman's prose and poetry and Adorno's aesthetic theory. Analyzing The Help (2011) and Gentleman's Agreement (1947), Schoolman shows how film produces a more advanced image of reconciliation than those originally created by modernist artworks. Each film depicts violence toward racial and ethnic difference while also displaying a reconciliation image that aesthetically educates the public about how the violence of constructing difference as otherness can be overcome. Mounting a democratic enlightenment, the reconciliation image in film illuminates a possible politics for challenging the rise of nationalism's violence toward differences in all their diversity.
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EAN: 9781478007654
UPC: 9781478007654
ISBN: 9781478007654
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Number of Pages: 336 Pages
Publication Name: Democratic Enlightenment : the Reconciliation Image, Aesthetic Education, Possible Politics
Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Item Height: 1 in
Publication Year: 2020
Subject: Media Studies, History & Theory
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 20.8 Oz
Subject Area: Political Science, Social Science
Author: Morton Schoolman
Item Length: 9.3 in
Item Width: 6.4 in
Format: Hardcover
