This book investigates how we are involved in politically informed structures and how they appear to us. Following different approaches in contemporary aesthetics and cultural philosophy, such as everyday aesthetics, atmosphere and aestheticization, the contributions explore how embedded powers in politics, education, democracy, and landscape are analyzed through aesthetics.
Author(s): Elisabetta Di Stefano, Carsten Friberg, Max Ryynänen
Series: UNIPA Springer Series
Publisher: Springer
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 125
City: Cham
Preface
Introduction
Contents
Editors and Contributors
Aesthetic Politics and Political Aesthetics: A Crucial Distinction
Introduction: The Construction of Political Imaginaries
Politics and Aesthetic Visibilization
Aesthetics–Politics Tension
Political Aesthetics and Its Strategies: Five Cases
Case 1
Case 2
Case 3
Case 4
Case 5
Aesthetic Politics and Its Sinister Core
Conclusion
References
Political Concepts as Aesthetic Concepts
Aesthetics and Politics: Introducing the Topic
More Than Aesthetic Concepts
References
Care as Key to Political Aesthetics
Introduction
Self-Care as the “Art of Living”
Care as Appropriateness
Care as “Making Special”
What is Political Aesthetics?
Conclusion
References
The Body in Formation. Reflections on Body Bildung
Introduction
The Body in Philosophy
Formation/Bildung
Spiritual Sciences and Half-Education
Return to the Body
References
Staged Emotions. Is a Democratic Atmospherization a Contradictio in Adjecto?
References
Neutral Arts to Democratic Values. The Case of Iranian Naghashi-Khat (Calligram)
Introduction
Review of Literature
Iranian Naghashi-Khat and Democratic Values
Conclusion
References
Landscape Aesthetics and Politics
Introduction—The Political Significance of Landscapes
Landscape and Aesthetics
The Aesthetic Landscape
Aesthetics and the Right to the Landscape
Conclusions
References
The Beauty of Nature at Risk of Extinction! Could Aesthetics Act as a Means for Saving Natural Beauty?
Is There a Non-Human Aesthetics of Nature?
Natural Beauty and Alienation of Human Culture
Natural Beauty Versus Human-Centred Beauty
The Potential of the Aesthetics of Nature
Conclusion
References
