Tanner Lectures on Human Values
Fintan O’Toole Columnist with The Irish Times and Leonard L. Milberg ’53 Visiting Professor of Irish Letters at Princeton University “Known and Strange Things: The Political Necessity of Art” (November 9) Lecture 1: Against Artfulness--Democracy has become, not so much aestheticized, as artful. Reactionary politicians create collusive relationships with their audiences in which exaggeration and provocation are performed and consumed. Citizens become fans. This is less a form of democratic deliberation, more an ersatz replacement for the aesthetic experience. (November 10) Lecture 2: Ne...
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