Lambert Zuidervaart

Art in Public (eBook, ePUB)

Politics, Economics, and a Democratic Culture

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines fundamental questions about funding for the arts: why should governments provide funding for the arts? What do the arts contribute to daily life? Do artists and their publics have a social responsibility? Challenging questionable assumptions about the state, the arts and a democratic society, Lambert Zuidervaart presents a vigorous case for government funding, based on crucial contributions the arts make to civil society. He argues that the arts contribute to democratic communication and a social economy, fostering the critical and creative dialogue that a democratic society needs. Informed by the author's experience leading a non-profit arts organisation as well as his expertise in the arts, humanities and social sciences, this book proposes an entirely new conception of the public role of art with wide-ranging implications for education, politics and cultural policy.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. November 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511852695
• Artikelnr.: 37842899

Autorenporträt

Lambert Zuidervaart is an emeritus professor of philosophy at the Institute for Christian Studies and the University of Toronto and a visiting scholar at Calvin University. He is the author of nine books in philosophy, including Artistic Truth, Social Philosophy after Adorno, and Religion, Truth, and Social Transformation. A resident of West Michigan, he sings in the Chamber Choir of Grand Rapids and two church choirs. His memoir Dog-Kissed Tears also appeared with Wipf and Stock.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Double Deficit: 1. Culture wars
2. What good is art?
3. Just art?
Part II. Civil Society: 4. Public sphere
5. Civic sector
6. Countervailing forces
Part III. Modernism Remixed: 7. Relational autonomy
8. Authenticity and responsibility
9. Democratic culture
10. Transforming cultural policy.

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Part I. Double Deficit: 1. Culture wars; 2. What good is art?; 3. Just art?; Part II. Civil Society: 4. Public sphere; 5. Civic sector; 6. Countervailing forces; Part III. Modernism Remixed: 7. Relational autonomy; 8. Authenticity and responsibility; 9. Democratic culture; 10. Transforming cultural policy.

Rezensionen

'[Zuidervaart] succinctly summarizes most major arguments in support of cultural goods or public art in economics and criticizes mundane economic arguments through thought-provoking philosophical contemplation.' Byung-Hee Soh, Journal of Cultural Economics