A Democratic Enlightenment: The Reconciliation Image, Aesthetic Education, Possi

Description: A Democratic Enlightenment by Morton Schoolman Drawing on Whitman and Adorno, Morton Schoolman proposes aesthetic education through film as a way to redress the political violence inflicted on difference society constructs as its racialized, gendered, Semitic, and sexualized other. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher 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 Whitmans prose and poetry and Adornos aesthetic theory. Analyzing The Help (2011) and Gentlemans 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 nationalisms violence toward differences in all their diversity. Author Biography Morton Schoolman is Professor of Political Science at the State University of New York at Albany and author of Reason and Horror: Critical Theory, Democracy, and Aesthetic Individuality and The Imaginary Witness: The Critical Theory of Herbert Marcuse. Table of Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction: Past as Prologue 1 Part I. The Reconciliation Image in Whitman 1. Democratic Vistas: Democratic Enlightenment and Reconciliation 47 2. Whitmans Discovery: Aesthetic Education through the Visual Image 79 First Bridge. Thinking with Adorno against Adorno 119 Part II. The Reconciliation Image in Adorno 3. Aesthetic Reason and Reflexivity, Twin Economies and Democratic Effects 145 4. Aesthetic Analogues: Art and Film 166 Second Bridge: The Reconciliation Image versus the Narrative Structure of Film 199 Part III. The Reconciliation Image in Film 5. The Help: Entangled in a Becoming 231 6. Gentlemens Agreement: Beyond Tolerance 249 7. The Reconciliation Image in Film as Universal Art Form 273 Notes 281 Bibliography 301 Index 309 Review "In a political climate marked by right-wing celebrations of misogyny, xenophobia, oligarchy, racism, militarism, and extractive capitalism, you might be skeptical of a book about the reconciliation image. But Morton Schoolman, in a startling and effective admixture of Whitmans democratic ethos, Adornos defense of a specifically aesthetic kind of critical reason, and contemporary films, contends that now is the time for new thinking about reconciliation. This is an original, creative, provocative, rewarding, and timely book." -- Jane Bennett, author of * Influx and Efflux: Writing Up with Walt Whitman *"Morton Schoolman is an accomplished, erudite, and wonderfully playful reader of both Whitman and Adorno. His insightful account of a democratic enlightenment through encounters with images opens spaces for politics that we wouldnt otherwise see. I didnt want to put this provocative book down!" -- Lori Jo Marso, author of * Politics with Beauvoir: Freedom in the Encounter * Review Quote "Morton Schoolman is an accomplished, erudite, and wonderfully playful reader of both Whitman and Adorno. His insightful account of a democratic enlightenment through encounters with images opens spaces for politics that we wouldnt otherwise see. I didnt want to put this provocative book down!" Details ISBN1478008032 Author Morton Schoolman Pages 336 Publisher Duke University Press Year 2020 ISBN-10 1478008032 ISBN-13 9781478008033 Format Paperback Imprint Duke University Press Subtitle The Reconciliation Image, Aesthetic Education, Possible Politics Place of Publication North Carolina Country of Publication United States DEWEY 320.01 Short Title A Democratic Enlightenment Language English UK Release Date 2020-05-08 Publication Date 2020-05-08 AU Release Date 2020-05-08 NZ Release Date 2020-05-08 US Release Date 2020-05-08 Illustrations 1 illustrations Edited by Christopher E. Swide Birth 1974 Affiliation European University Viadrina, Germany Position journalist Qualifications Ph.D. Alternative 9781478007654 Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:131536156;

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