Aesthetic Elements Of Politics
Aesthetic Elements Of Politics

Summary/Abstract: There is a continuous battle between three major modes of experience in approaching politics, i.e. practice, theory and art. Both the practicians and their opponents from the theoretical and artistic camp profess the uniqueness of their approach. Members of each camp try to prove the supremacy of their position. Sometimes these camps enter into alliances: the practicians and the theoreticians unite against the poets or the latter join forces with the theoreticians against the practicians. However, these are usually only nondurable alliances easily disrupted by the egoism of clans. At the earliest opportunity, the practicians start making fun of the theoreticians' and artists' escapism, while in return these are quick to criticise the lack of sophistication and stronger analytical capacities as well as the primitivism of the politicians

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