Art, Politics, and Development
Temple University Press, 2013
eISBN: 978-1-4399-1086-3 | Cloth: 978-1-4399-1084-9
Library of Congress Classification NC748.L47 2013
Dewey Decimal Classification 701.82
eISBN: 978-1-4399-1086-3 | Cloth: 978-1-4399-1084-9
Library of Congress Classification NC748.L47 2013
Dewey Decimal Classification 701.82
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
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” is the result of a mental conditioning that began with the invention of linear perspective in Renaissance art. It not only triggered the emergence of modern science and brought forth our Western notion of progress, but ultimately, development as well.
Art, Politics, and Development examines this process by pulling from a range of disciplines, including art history, philosophy, literature, and social science. Lepenies not only explains the shortcomings of modern aid in a novel fashion, he also proposes how aid could be done differently.
In the series Politics, History and Social Change, edited by John C. Torpey
In the series Politics, History and Social Change, edited by John C. Torpey
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