Art, Politics, and Development /

In his groundbreaking study, Art, Politics, and Development, Philipp Lepenies contributes to the ongoing controversy about why the track record of development aid is so dismal. He asserts that development aid policies are grounded in a specific way of literally looking at the world. This worldview i...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Lepenies, Philipp, 1971-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2014.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Konst och samhälle > historia.
Progress.
Civilization, Western > History.
Art and society > Western countries > History.
Perspective > History.
Perspective.
Civilization, Western.
Art and society.
Developing countries.
Developed countries.
Western countries.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Perspective: A Window to the World and to the Future
  • Perspective
  • Anticipation of a New Weltanschauung: Transgressing Medieval Boundaries
  • 2. From Art to Worldview
  • The Disenchantment of the Physical World
  • Toward a New Horizon: The Discovery of Linear Time and the Idea of Progress
  • Condorcet: From the Linear Perspective Worldview to the Development Mind-set
  • The Notion of the "Other" prior to the Esquisse
  • The Development Mind-set Further Concretized: The Idea of Civilizing and Civilization
  • Linear Perspective and the Development Mind-set: A Summary of Key Concepts
  • 3. Modern Development
  • The Contemporary Development Mind-set
  • Educating the "Others"
  • The "Rage de Vouloir Conclure"
  • 4. Counterperspectives
  • Resistance to the Perspective Worldview
  • Proposals for Development Alternatives
  • A Nonlinear Approach
  • Conclusion.

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