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A Democratic Enlightenment: The Reconciliation Image, Aesthetic Education, Possible Politics
Contributor(s): Schoolman, Morton (Author)

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 ISBN: 1478008032     ISBN-13: 9781478008033
Publisher: Duke University Press
OUR PRICE: $26.55  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: May 2020
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BISAC Categories:
- Political Science | History & Theory - General
- Social Science | Media Studies
- Literary Criticism | Poetry
Dewey: 811.3
LCCN: 2019033253
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6" W x 9" L (1.00 lbs) 336 pages
Features: Bibliography, Index
 
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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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