{"product_id":"a-democratic-enlightenment-morton-schoolman-9781478008033","title":"A Democratic Enlightenment: The Reconciliation Image, Aesthetic Education, Possible Politics","description":"In \u003ci\u003eA Democratic Enlightenment\u003c\/i\u003e Morton Schoolman proposes aesthetic education through film as a way to redress the political violence inflicted on difference that society constructs as its racialized, gendered, Semitic, and sexualized \u003ci\u003eother\u003c\/i\u003e. Drawing on Voltaire, Diderot, and Schiller, Schoolman reconstructs the genealogical history of what he calls the reconciliation image--a visual model of a democratic ideal of reconciliation he then theorizes through Whitman's prose and poetry and Adorno's aesthetic theory. Analyzing \u003ci\u003eThe Help\u003c\/i\u003e (2011) and \u003ci\u003eGentleman's Agreement\u003c\/i\u003e (1947), Schoolman shows how film produces a more advanced image of reconciliation than those originally created by modernist artworks. Each film depicts violence toward racial and ethnic difference while also displaying a reconciliation image that aesthetically educates the public about how the violence of constructing difference as otherness can be overcome. Mounting a democratic enlightenment, the reconciliation image in film illuminates a possible politics for challenging the rise of nationalism's violence toward differences in all their diversity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Morton Schoolman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1478008032\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781478008033\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Duke University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/08\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 336\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.90d","brand":"Morton Schoolman","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43980480512255,"sku":"9781478008033","price":27.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_2a87eeaf-33dd-42e2-9c7b-8836f2f4c357.jpg?v=1683250145","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/a-democratic-enlightenment-morton-schoolman-9781478008033","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}