Politics and aesthetics in the arts

Contesting the arts: politics and aesthetics; From the stage to the state: politics, form and performance in the Elizabethian theatre; Republican beauty, sublime democracy: civic humanism in Gadamer and Rawls; Travelers, colonizers and the aesthetics of self-conception: Denis Diderot on the perlis of detachment; The aesthetics of nationalism and the limits of culture; Peripheral visions: class, culture aspiration and the artisan community in mid-nineteenth-century France; The war of tradition: Virginia Woolf and the temper of criticism; The discomfort of strangeness and beauty: art, politics and aesthetics