Aesthetic Democracy(English, Paperback, Docherty Thomas)

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Aesthetic Democracy(English, Paperback, Docherty Thomas) is written by Docherty Thomas and published by Stanford University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0804751897 (ISBN 10) and 9780804751896 (ISBN 13).

Aesthetic Democracy argues that art and the aesthetic in general are the founding condition of the possibility of establishing social and political democracy. The book examines contemporary criticism and finds that it is historically shaped by colonialism, and that it sets up an opposition of east and west that shapes all contemporary cultural politics. The author argues for a way of outwitting this potentially dangerous struggle of east and west grounded in an aestheticism and a validation of sensory experience. Docherty proposes a new model of cultural critique, based on a revitalized and positively valorized notion of "hypocrisy," whose roots lie in Machiavelli, but whose contemporary strength lies in its potential for an ethical encounter with alterity as such.