Democracy, power and powerlessness of art
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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Democracy, power and powerlessness of art
Original language description
The systematic rise of proto-totalitarian regimes, the acceleration of neoliberal cultural politics, and the recent pandemic restrictions in European countries have intensified discussions in the cultural sector about the basic, yet fundamental question: Is art powerful enough to contribute to the cultivation of democracy or is it, rather, powerless? In order to tackle this problem, the author chooses, as a starting point, Walter Bryce Gallie’s explanation of art and democracy as essentially contested concepts. This leads to the necessity of studying the particular role of artistic practices in the open contest over democracy. The chapter first discusses the instrumental role of artistic practices enabling and disabling the stimulation of democracy (propaganda, education, commodification) and continues with an analysis of the function of sovereign autonomous art in the social context. Finally, with reference to Johann Huizinga and Judith Butler, the author argues that the position of art is neither instrumental nor sovereign, but playful. As play, art has the potential to non-radically interrupt any normative system it is irreducibly embedded in, to enrich the contest over democracy with new meaning and to preserve it from atrophy. As such, artistic practices are fundamental to the evolution of democracy.
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Classification
Type
C - Chapter in a specialist book
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OECD FORD branch
60301 - Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GA19-20031S" target="_blank" >GA19-20031S: Towards a New Ontology of Social Cohesion</a><br>
Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
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Publication year
2022
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
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Book/collection name
Play and Democracy: Philosophical perspectives
ISBN
978-0-367-64127-6
Number of pages of the result
18
Pages from-to
33-50
Number of pages of the book
264
Publisher name
Routledge
Place of publication
London
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