{"product_id":"a-democratic-enlightenment-the-reconciliation-image-aesthetic-education-possible-politics-paperback","title":"A Democratic Enlightenment: The Reconciliation Image, Aesthetic Education, Possible Politics - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMorton Schoolman\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eA Democratic Enlightenment\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eother\u003c\/i\u003e. 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Help\u003c\/i\u003e (2011) and \u003ci\u003eGentleman's Agreement\u003c\/i\u003e (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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eMorton Schoolman is Professor of Political Science at the State University of New York at Albany and author of \u003ci\u003eReason and Horror: Critical Theory, Democracy, and Aesthetic Individuality\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Imaginary Witness: The Critical Theory of Herbert Marcuse\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 336\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 08, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51807340921120,"sku":"9781478008033","price":56.63,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/45429ea98ea7cff7268cd1a1de558d96.webp?v=1780930299","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/a-democratic-enlightenment-the-reconciliation-image-aesthetic-education-possible-politics-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}