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THE PHILOSOPHY AND POLITICS OF AESTHETIC EXPERI...

This book develops a philosophy of aesthetic experience through two socially significant
philosophical movements: early German Romanticism and early critical theory. In examining the
relationship between these two closely intertwined movements  we see that aesthetic experience
is not merely a passive response to art-it is the capacity to cultivate true personal autonomy
and to critique the social and political context of our lives. Art is political for these
thinkers  not only when it paints a picture of society  but even more when it makes us aware of
our deeply ingrained forms of experience in a transformative way. Ultimately  the book argues
that we have to think of art as a form of truth that is not reducible to communicative
rationality or scientific knowledge  and from which philosophy and politics can learn valuable
lessons.

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