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This book examines fundamental questions about funding for the arts: why should governments provide funding for the arts? What do the arts contribute to daily life? Do artists and their publics have a social responsibility? Challenging questionable assumptions about the state, the arts and a democratic society, Lambert Zuidervaart presents a vigorous case for government funding, based on crucial contributions the arts make to civil society. He argues that the arts contribute to democratic communication and a social economy, fostering the critical and creative dialogue that a democratic society needs. Informed by the author's experience leading a non-profit arts organisation as well as his expertise in the arts, humanities and social sciences, this book proposes an entirely new conception of the public role of art with wide-ranging implications for education, politics and cultural policy.

Political sociology --- Art --- Sociology of culture --- Arts and society. --- Democracy and the arts. --- Government aid to the arts. --- Arts --- Government patronage of the arts --- Arts and democracy --- Arts and sociology --- Society and the arts --- Sociology and the arts --- Government aid --- Finance --- Social aspects --- Relational art. --- Relational aesthetics --- Relationism in art --- Art, Modern --- Arts and Humanities --- Philosophy

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Lambert Zuidervaart examines what is living and what is dead in the social philosophy of Theodor W. Adorno, the most important philosopher and social critic in Germany after World War II. When he died in 1969, Adorno's successors abandoned his critical-utopian passions. Habermas in particular, rejected or ignored Adorno's central insights on the negative effects of capitalism and new technologies upon nature and human life. Zuidervaart reclaims Adorno's insights from Habermasian neglect while taking up legitimate Habermasian criticisms. He also addresses the prospects for radical and democratic transformations of an increasingly globalized world. The book proposes a provocative social philosophy 'after Adorno'.

Philosophie sociale. --- Adorno, Theodor Wiesengrund, --- Critique et interprétation --- Social sciences --- Social philosophy --- Social theory --- Philosophy. --- Adorno, Theodor W., --- Adorno, Theodor W. --- Wiesengrund, Theodor, --- Wiesengrund-Adorno, Theodor, --- Adorno, Teodor V., --- Adorŭno, --- אדורנו, תאודור --- אדורנו, ת. ו. --- Adorno, Th. W. --- Adorno, Theodor Wiesengrund --- Critique et interprétation. --- Arts and Humanities --- Philosophy

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"What good is art? What is the point of a university education? Can philosophers contribute anything to social liberation? Such questions, both ancient and urgent, are the pulse of reformational philosophy. Inspired by the vision of the Dutch religious and political leader Abraham Kuyper, reformational philosophy pursues social transformation for the common good. In this companion volume to Religion, Truth, and Social Transformation, Lambert Zuidervaart presents a socially engaged philosophy of the arts and higher education. Interacting with the ideas of leading Kuyperian thinkers such as Calvin Seerveld and Nicholas Wolterstorff, Zuidervaart shows why renewal in the arts needs to coincide with political and economic transformation. He also calls for education and research that serve the common good. Deeply rooted in reformational philosophy, his book brings a fresh and inspiring voice to current discussions of religious aesthetics and Christian scholarship. Art, Education, and Cultural Renewal is a testament to the practical and intellectual richness of a unique religious tradition, compelling in its call for social solidarity and cultural critique."--

Christianity --- Art --- Beautiful, The --- Beauty --- Aesthetics --- Art and philosophy --- Philosophy. --- Analysis, interpretation, appreciation

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Questions first raised by Hannah Arendt in the 1960s take on new urgency in the post-truth era, as political leaders blithely reject facts in the public domain: Is truth politically impotent? Are politics inherently false? Is the search for truth still relevant?Shattering Silos, a companion volume to Religion, Truth, and Social Transformation and Art, Education, and Cultural Renewal, provides a path-breaking response. As in his two previous books, Lambert Zuidervaart challenges the boundaries philosophers set up between epistemology, ethics, and political philosophy. Knowledge, he argues, takes different forms in various social domains, and all are subject to political struggle. A critique of contemporary society must draw on many social domains of knowledge, including the arts and religion, and should recast politics as a striving for truth in the broadest sense. Proposing a new conception of truth – one that emphasizes the unity of knowledge and truth, as well as their diversity among different social domains – Zuidervaart asks what such holism and pluralism suggest about how we understand politics and society. This book proposes a new understanding of large-scale social change, challenging how most people think about knowledge and truth.Interweaving epistemology, social criticism, and political thought, Shattering Silos aims to help redirect an allegedly post-truth society.

Knowledge, Theory of --- Knowledge, Theory of --- Political science --- Truth --- Truthfulness and falsehood --- Political aspects. --- Social aspects. --- Philosophy. --- Political aspects. --- Political aspects. --- Critical Theory. --- Greek thought. --- Hannah Arendt. --- Hegel. --- Herman Dooyeweerd. --- Institute for Christian Studies. --- Jewish thought. --- Jurgen Habermas. --- Martin Heidegger. --- Michel Foucault. --- Religious Left. --- Terrence Malick. --- Theodor Adorno. --- administrative state. --- aesthetics. --- analytic. --- art. --- belief. --- capitalism. --- civil society. --- continental. --- epistemology. --- evil. --- freedom. --- good. --- holism. --- hope. --- human flourishing. --- insight. --- interdisciplinary studies. --- justice. --- phenomenology. --- philosophy. --- pluralism. --- political thought. --- post-truth. --- postsecular. --- power. --- reformational philosophy. --- religion. --- revolution. --- science. --- social change. --- social criticism. --- social norms. --- spirituality. --- sublime. --- technology. --- truth. --- wisdom.