The concept that art must hart no instrumental function is a doctrine traditionally traced back to Kant's Critique of Judgment. In Reconstituting the Body Politic, Jonathan Hess proposes that this concept of autonomous art marks not a withdrawal from the political realm but the ultimate embodiment of Enlightenment political culture, a response to a crisis in the institution idealized by Jurgen Habermas as the bourgeois public sphere.
- ISBN10 0814327885
- ISBN13 9780814327883
- Publish Date 1 May 1999
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 20 January 2010
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Wayne State University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 340
- Language English