Aesthetic democracy.0804751897 Aesthetic democracy. Docherty, Thomas. Stanford U. Press 2006 185 pages $19.95 Paperback JC423 Asking what the foundations of a critical consciousness are, Docherty (English and comparative literature, U. of Warwick, UK) finds the answer in encounters with alterity Al`ter´i`ty n. 1. The state or quality of being other; a being otherwise. For outness is but the feeling of otherness (alterity) rendered intuitive, or alterity visually represented. and the awareness of death. In this formulation formulation /for·mu·la·tion/ (for?mu-la´shun) the act or product of formulating. American Law Institute Formulation , criticism might be seen as a form of warding off of death in which we become "only figures in and through alterity, through the memory that others may have of us, and the traces that we may leave as remains." Docherty suggests that these traces are literature, thus the critical consciousness, necessary for democracy, rests upon a form of aesthetics aesthetics (ĕsthĕt`ĭks), the branch of philosophy that is concerned with the nature of art and the criteria of artistic judgment. . He considers the implications of this idea for the concept of autonomy as currently formulated for·mu·late tr.v. for·mu·lat·ed, for·mu·lat·ing, for·mu·lates 1. a. To state as or reduce to a formula. b. To express in systematic terms or concepts. c. in democratic theory. ([c]20062005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) |
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