Political Theory of Art

Dr. Alessio Fransoni

doi:10.5771/9783985721627

Summary

The book enters the debate on the relationship between aesthetics and politics with an original and comprehensive theory. As Fransoni makes clear, a political theory is not a theory of politics, but a theory that deals with things, in this case art, in order to read them in the light of the political, i.e. in relation to human plurality. In the light of the political, the work of art and other common notions of art criticism find new and surprising definitions. At the same time, it is revealed how the work of art manifests some of the crucial relationships of politics, such as that between freedom and world. A political theory ultimately looks at art from the same perspective of plurality that art, together with other concepts of the political, helps to define.

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Bibliographic data

Copyright year: 2024
ISBN-Print: 978-3-98572-161-0
ISBN-Online: 978-3-98572-162-7
Publisher: Academia, Baden-Baden
Series: Philosophische Praxis
Volume: 11
Language: English
Pages: 103
Product type: Book Titles

Titelei/Inhaltsverzeichnis No access Pages 1 - 12
1. 1) A theory as a system of differences No access
2. 2) The dimensions of the human condition as coordinates No access
3. 3) Phenomenology of the activities and the place of art No access
4. 4) Difference in movement and as movement No access
1. 1. 5.1) Political vs. social No access
  2. 5.2) The art world beyond sociology and institutional analysis No access
  3. 5.3) Freedom and beginning No access
2. 1. 6.1) Kant and plurality No access
  2. 6.2) Circumstances and examples No access
  3. 6.3) Art space between excellence and equality No access
  4. 6.4) Art and political judgement No access
3. 1. 7.1) Appearance of the world No access
  2. 7.2) Lasting like the action No access
  3. 7.3) Revolution, beginning and duration No access
1. 8) Proximity and support No access
2. 9) Speaking and seeing in the dative case No access
3. 10) Moving and responding No access
4. 11) Asymmetry and daimonic difference No access
5. 12) Agency and politics No access
6. 13) The work of art as a “who” No access
7. 14) Thirdness at work and in action No access
8. 1. 15.1) The in-between as medium No access
  2. 15.2) The in-between as form No access
9. 16) Relief, support and contact surface No access
Reference list No access Pages 99 - 103