Democracy and Beauty: The Political Aesthetics of W. E. B. Du Bois

by Robert Gooding-Williams

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What is beauty, and what is its political function? In what ways might it help undermine white supremacy and cultivate a more democratic political culture? Democracy and Beauty shines a light on W. E. B. Du Bois's attempts to answer these questions during the decade surrounding the First World War and, in so doing, offers a groundbreaking account of the philosopher's aesthetics.

Robert Gooding-Williams reconstructs Du Bois's defense...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0231220022

ISBN13:9780231220026

Release Date:April 2025

Publisher:Columbia University Press

Length:240 Pages

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