Journal Title
Title of Journal: Int J Polit Cult Soc
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Abbravation: International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society
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Authors: Jeffrey C Goldfarb
Publish Date: 2007/07/24
Volume: 19, Issue: 1-2, Pages: 53-67
Abstract
In this paper using reflections on a dramatic moment in the life of the author’s ethnographic study of theater in Poland as a starting point the relationship between art and politics is analyzed The relationship between two central propositions is explored leading to a conclusion 1 Cultural freedom is a definitive characteristic of modern social life and 2 the freedom constituted by culture as the arts and sciences opens up public space for alternative social and political practices and thus cultural freedom is a base for political freedom Applying these propositions to a study of theater in Poland it is shown that art constitutes cultural freedom through its relative autonomy and the politics of small things results Societies are transformed
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