{"product_id":"a-democratic-enlightenment","title":"A Democratic Enlightenment","description":"In \u003ci\u003eA Democratic Enlightenment\u003c\/i\u003e Morton Schoolman proposes aesthetic education through film as a way to redress the political violence inflicted on difference that society constructs as its racialized, gendered, Semitic, and sexualized \u003ci\u003eother\u003c\/i\u003e. Drawing on Voltaire, Diderot, and Schiller, Schoolman reconstructs the genealogical history of what he calls the reconciliation image-a visual model of a democratic ideal of reconciliation he then theorizes through Whitman's prose and poetry and Adorno's aesthetic theory. Analyzing \u003ci\u003eThe Help\u003c\/i\u003e (2011) and \u003ci\u003eGentleman's Agreement\u003c\/i\u003e (1947), Schoolman shows how film produces a more advanced image of reconciliation than those originally created by modernist artworks. Each film depicts violence toward racial and ethnic difference while also displaying a reconciliation image that aesthetically educates the public about how the violence of constructing difference as otherness can be overcome. Mounting a democratic enlightenment, the reconciliation image in film illuminates a possible politics for challenging the rise of nationalism's violence toward differences in all their diversity.","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67571540099439,"sku":"9781478008033","price":219.94,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0921\/9384\/9711\/files\/1478008032.jpg?v=1790378584","url":"https:\/\/internacional.umlivro.com.br\/products\/a-democratic-enlightenment","provider":"UmLivro Internacional","version":"1.0","type":"link"}