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A Democratic Enlightenment
Morton Schoolman
其他書名
The Reconciliation Image, Aesthetic Education, Possible Politics
出版Duke University Press, 2020-04-03
主題Political Science / History & TheorySocial Science / Media Studies
ISBN14780090559781478009054
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=KDHYDwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋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.