Aesthetic Perspectives on Culture, Politics, and Landscape

This book investigates how we are involved in politically informed structures and how they appear to us. Following different approaches in contemporary aesthetics and cultural philosophy, such as everyday aesthetics, atmosphere and aestheticization, the contributions explore how embedded powers in politics, education, democracy, and landscape are analyzed through aesthetics.

Appeals to anyone interested in interdisciplinary research between humanities, political and social sciences Demonstrates that political ideas appear in different forms, and a given form reveals political implications Written by experts in the field

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Inhalt
Aesthetic Politics and Political Aesthetics: a Crucial Distinction.- Political Concepts as Aesthetic Concepts.- Care as Key to Political Aesthetics.- The Body in Formation. Reflections on Body Bildung.- Staged Emotions. Is a Democratic Atmospherization a Contradictio in Adjecto?.- Neutral Arts to Democratic Values. The Case of Iranian Naghashi-khat (Calligram).- Landscape Aesthetics and Politics.- The Beauty of Nature at Risk of Extinction! Could Aesthetics act as Means for Saving Natural Beauty?.