Pinney, C;
(2017)
I love the smell of napalm in the morning: aesthetics against society.
World Art
, 7
(2)
pp. 207-226.
10.1080/21500894.2017.1337649.
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Abstract
The relationship of aesthetics to ethics is explored through a discussion of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Japanese military woodblock prints and recent Daesh (ISIL) media productions. Ruth Benedict’s The Chrysanthemum and the Sword is praised for its anthropological ‘nearness’ to a ‘dangerous’ local aesthetics and ethics, a ‘proximity’ that philosophers of aesthetics seem reluctant to entertain. Thierry de Duve’s engagement with Kant’s sensus communis (which creates the ‘oughtness’ of art) is invoked to help explain why politics is always inextricably aestheticized and aesthetics always intrinsically political.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | I love the smell of napalm in the morning: aesthetics against society |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1080/21500894.2017.1337649 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1080/21500894.2017.1337649 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Dept of Anthropology |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10112500 |
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