Aesthetic Perspectives on Culture, Politics, and Landscape: Appearances of the Political

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This book investigates how we are involved in politically informed structures and how they appear to us. Following different approaches in contemporary aesthetics and cultural philosophy, such as everyday aesthetics, atmosphere and aestheticization, the contributions explore how embedded powers in politics, education, democracy, and landscape are analyzed through aesthetics. Preface Introduction Contents Editors and Contributors Aesthetic Politics and Political Aesthetics: A Crucial Distinction Introduction: The Construction of Political Imaginaries Politics and Aesthetic Visibilization Aesthetics–Politics Tension Political Aesthetics and Its Strategies: Five Cases Case 1 Case 2 Case 3 Case 4 Case 5 Aesthetic Politics and Its Sinister Core Conclusion References Political Concepts as Aesthetic Concepts Aesthetics and Politics: Introducing the Topic More Than Aesthetic Concepts References Care as Key to Political Aesthetics Introduction Self-Care as the “Art of Living” Care as Appropriateness Care as “Making Special” What is Political Aesthetics? Conclusion References The Body in Formation. Reflections on Body Bildung Introduction The Body in Philosophy Formation/Bildung Spiritual Sciences and Half-Education Return to the Body References Staged Emotions. Is a Democratic Atmospherization a Contradictio in Adjecto? References Neutral Arts to Democratic Values. The Case of Iranian Naghashi-Khat (Calligram) Introduction Review of Literature Iranian Naghashi-Khat and Democratic Values Conclusion References Landscape Aesthetics and Politics Introduction—The Political Significance of Landscapes Landscape and Aesthetics The Aesthetic Landscape Aesthetics and the Right to the Landscape Conclusions References The Beauty of Nature at Risk of Extinction! Could Aesthetics Act as a Means for Saving Natural Beauty? Is There a Non-Human Aesthetics of Nature? Natural Beauty and Alienation of Human Culture Natural Beauty Versus Human-Centred Beauty The Potential of the Aesthetics of Nature Conclusion References