• Medientyp: E-Artikel
  • Titel: Doing Justice in Aesthetics
  • Beteiligte: CANUEL, MARK
  • Erschienen: University of California Press, 2006
  • Erschienen in: Representations, 95 (2006) 1, Seite 76-104
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • DOI: 10.1525/rep.2006.95.1.76
  • ISSN: 0734-6018; 1533-855X
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  • Beschreibung: 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.