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With the collapse of art into mass culture, recent academic debates have tried to recover the critical efficacy of art via the broader concept of aesthetics. Spurred by the thinking of French philosophers such as Adam Badiou and Jacques Ranciere, there-theorization of aesthetics has revived hope in the revolutionary potential of art. Among other things it has given rise toglobally oriented discourses on art and the creation of a democratic future. Yet a sophisticated return to a universalism of thought and action can be detected in these recent analytical procedures. The arising question here is whether the universality of human emancipation has onlyto be understood in teleological, singular, or transcendental terms?
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