Aesthetics and Democracy

Walter Benjamin thought that aestheticizing politics was the mark of fascism. More recently, Jason Frank has argued that the sublime has democratic potential. What can eighteenth-century aesthetics contribute to revitalizing contemporary democratic thought?

Deadline for submissions: Monday, 21 March 2022

Vivasvan Soni, Northwestern U (v-soni@northwestern.edu ) Sarah Tindal Kareem, U of California (kareem@humnet.ucla.edu )