Title: Beyond aesthetics and politics : philosophical and axiological studies on the avant-garde, pragmatism, and postmodernism /
Authors: Skowroñski, Krysztof Piotr.
Publisher: Rodopi,
Year: 2013
Subjects: Aesthetics
Contents: Santayana and the avant-garde : visual arts in the context of democracy, norms, liberty, and social progress -- Style as the tool of tyranny in Gombrowicz : an avant-gardist as a forerunner of postmodernism -- Facial images as a way for the articulation of values in the avant-garde's aesthetics of deformation. Another prelude to postmodernism -- The interrelation between politics and aesthetics in classic American pragmatism : democracy and aesthetic experience in William James -- Aesthetic persuasion and political compulsion : literary philosophy in light of Richard Rorty's ideas of democratic liberalism and cultural politics.