Politics and Beauty in America

The Liberal Aesthetics of P.T. Barnum, John Muir, and Harley Earl

Inbunden, Engelska, 2016

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This book holds classical liberalism responsible for an American concept of beauty that centers upon women, wilderness, and machines.

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Utgivningsdatum2016-06-29
Mått148 x 210 x 21 mm
Vikt470 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor234
FörlagPalgrave Macmillan
ISBN9781137020888

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Timothy J. Lukes is Professor of Political Science at Santa Clara University, USA. His research interests include the Italian Renaissance, American political culture, and contemporary political thought. His books have won awards from the Women’s Caucus of the American Political Science Association and the Asian American Studies Association, and his article on Progressives and Asian communities in California received the Carl I. Wheat Memorial Award. He has published essays in numerous academic journals, including The American Political Science Review, The Journal of Politics, PS: Political Science and Politics, Journal of Law and Public Policy, Journal of Sport and Social Issues, and The Sixteenth Century Journal. He is recipient of the Northern California Phi Beta Kappa Outstanding Teaching Award.

Preface - Hitching Wagons to Stars .- Introduction: Reason over Rhyme .- 1. "Eat Then, Beauty, Said the Monster" .- 2. Swords and Scabbards: Locke's Occupation of Shaftesbury and Burke .- 3. Humbug Feminism: P. T. Barnum, Sara Baartman, and Joice Heth .- 4. Hats Off to Jenny Lind .- 5. John Muir and the Beauty of Poison Oak .- 6. Turbulent and Laminar Flow: From Henry Adams to Harley Earl .- 7. Reconstructing Beauty: Edward Hopper, Jackson Pollock, and Ornette Coleman.