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The Art of Freedom / Die Kunst der Freiheit
On the Dialectics of Democratic Existence
The notion of democratic freedom not only designates the kind of freedom that is implemented in political institutions and procedures. Rather, democratic freedom in the political sense can only be adequately understood, if conceived as an expression of a culture of freedom that relates to an overall lifestyle.
Rebentisch’s systematic history of theory shows that her philosophical critics provide the key for an understanding of a democratic culture of freedom. Philosophers ranging...
Rebentisch’s systematic history of theory shows that her philosophical critics provide the key for an understanding of a democratic culture of freedom. Philosophers ranging...
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The notion of democratic freedom not only designates the kind of freedom that is implemented in political institutions and procedures. Rather, democratic freedom in the political sense can only be adequately understood, if conceived as an expression of a culture of freedom that relates to an overall lifestyle.
Rebentisch’s systematic history of theory shows that her philosophical critics provide the key for an understanding of a democratic culture of freedom. Philosophers ranging from Plato to Carl Schmitt articulate their critique of democratic culture as a critique of its »aesthetization«. To defend a democratic culture of freedom therefore means to justify its aesthetization.
2011, 396 pages
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Juliane Rebentisch
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Juliane Rebentisch is Professor of Philosophy and Aesthetics at Hochschule für Gestaltung Offenbach and a member of the Research Council at the Frankfurt Institute for Social Research. She was a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Constance and a guest of honor at the Villa Massimo in Rome. In 2019, she joined the Department of German at Princeton University as a Regular Visiting Professor.
Juliane Rebentisch
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Juliane Rebentisch is Professor of Philosophy and Aesthetics at Hochschule für Gestaltung Offenbach and a member of the Research Council at the...
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Year of Publication: 2022
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The Plurality Dispute
In ten highly focused chapters, Juliane Rebentisch lays open Hannah Arendt’s political philosophy of plurality and discusses it within the spectrum of contemporary debates. Politics and truth, fleeing and statelessness, slavery and racism, colonialism and National Socialism, morality and education, discrimination and identity as well as capitalism and democracy are the keywords of these...
Year of Publication: 2003
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Aesthetics of Installation Art
The 2002 Documenta has shown that installations are a contemporary artistic phenomenon that are increasingly coming to the fore. This volume – long overdue – introduces the philosophical...
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