Format:
vii, 199 Seiten
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Illustrationen
ISBN:
9781780688343
Content:
The year 2019 marks the centenary of the founding of the Bauhaus, arguably the most influential school of art and design in the modern era. Commemorative activities will focus on its culture-historical significance, with scant attention being paid to a more fundamental question: the ramifications on legal and political thinking caused by the deep-seated transformation of the material world during the so-called age of extremes.0Daniel Damler reveals the finely woven fabric of material and intellectual culture, using the example of New Objectivity to show how radical changes in the design and material vocabulary of objects generate new political and legal paradigms. It was contemporaries of the Bauhaus revolution who began to apply aesthetic maxims such as "functionality" and "clarity" to the state 0and political thought. Our present-day demands for the "transparency" of governments and parliaments (without really knowing what we even mean by this) are very much a part of this tradition. 'Bauhaus Laws' offers a look at the shadow empire of legal aesthetics. His plea to take seriously the internal dynamics of concepts and figures of thought borrowed from material culture is addressed to legal scholars, political scientists and anthropologists, as well as to architects and designers. It is also aimed at readers who believe in political self-determination and the autonomy of the legal system
Note:
Auf dem Umschlag: The modernist revolution and legal thought
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Damler, Daniel, 1975 - Bauhaus laws Cambridge : Intersentia, 2019 ISBN 9781780688817
Language:
English
Subjects:
Law
Keywords:
Bauhaus
;
Rechtstheorie
;
Rechtsdenken
;
Bauhaus
;
Rechtstheorie
;
Rechtsdenken
;
Neue Sachlichkeit
;
Neues Bauen
;
Ästhetisches Ideal
;
Politisches Denken
;
Rechtsdenken
Author information:
Damler, Daniel 1975-
Author information:
Burnett, David L. 1973-
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