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Media type:
E-Article
Title:
Doing Justice in Aesthetics
Contributor:
CANUEL, MARK
Published:
University of California Press, 2006
Published in:
Representations, 95 (2006) 1, Seite 76-104
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1525/rep.2006.95.1.76
ISSN:
0734-6018;
1533-855X
Origination:
Footnote:
Description:
ABSTRACT This essay argues that recent attempts to celebrate the aesthetics of beauty because of its privileged connection to equitable or just social relations are misguided; such accounts—by Elaine Scarry, Wendy Steiner, and Peter de Bolla—continue to be conditioned by the normative inclusions and exclusions that have characterized writing on beauty at least since the eighteenth century. The essay also argues for a reconsideration of Kant's sublime in order to arrive at a more convincing connection between aesthetics and social justice.