Democracy and Beauty: The Political Aesthetics of W. E. B. Du Bois - Hardcover
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Availability:In StockContributor:Robert Gooding-WilliamsSeries:Leonard Hastings Schoff LecturesPublish date:2025-06-03Pages:272
Language:EnglishPublisher:Columbia University PressISBN-13:9780231220026ISBN-10:231220022UPC:9780231220026Book Category:Philosophy, HistoryBook Subcategory:Political, Aesthetics, African American & BlackSize:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.75 inchesWeight:1.0207Product ID:SC7QD8FAAG
What is beauty, and what is its political function? In what ways might it help undermine white supremacy and cultivate a more democratic political culture? Democracy and Beauty shines a light on W. E. B. Du Bois's attempts to answer these questions during the decade surrounding the First World War and, in so doing, offers a groundbreaking account of the philosopher's aesthetics.
Robert...Language:EnglishPublisher:Columbia University PressISBN-13:9780231220026ISBN-10:231220022UPC:9780231220026Book Category:Philosophy, HistoryBook Subcategory:Political, Aesthetics, African American & BlackSize:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.75 inchesWeight:1.0207Product ID:SC7QD8FAAG
Robert Gooding-Williams is the Brooks and Suzanne Ragen Professor of Philosophy at Yale University. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2018, and in 2020 he received a Guggenheim Fellowship. The Yale Graduate School awarded Gooding-Williams a Wilbur Cross Medal in 2023. His books include Zarathustra's Dionysian Modernism (2001); Look, a Negro!: Philosophical Essays on...
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