I love the smell of napalm in the morning
Aesthetics against society
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13036200 |
|---|---|
| Authors | C Pinney (0000-0002-6783-9009, University College London, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 207-226 |
| Publication date | 2017-07-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | World Art (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2150-0894 • E-ISSN: 2150-0908 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/21500894.2017.1337649 |
| OpenAlex | W2757746601 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 12 |
The relationship of aesthetics to ethics is explored through a discussion of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Japanese military woodblock prints and recent Daesh (ISIL) media productions. Ruth Benedict’s The Chrysanthemum and the Sword is praised for its anthropological ‘nearness’ to a ‘dangerous’ local aesthetics and ethics, a ‘proximity’ that philosophers of aesthetics seem reluctant to entertain. Thierry de Duve’s engagement with Kant’s sensus communis (which creates the ‘oughtness’ of art) is invoked to help explain why politics is always inextricably aestheticized and aesthetics always intrinsically political
Aesthetics · Art · Political science · Politics · Sociology · SWORD · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Chinese history and philosophy · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Law · Philosophy
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |