Abstract
This paper, based on Hannah Arendt's distinction between truth and opinion, argues that cultural critique owes its publicity to the fact that it doesn't claim absolute truths or professional knowledge but debatable, negotiable opinions. The space of cultural critique is the agora of public opinions, nor the wholesale centre of truths or laboratories of specialized knowledge. Cultural critics are neither philosophers with Platonic contempt for opinions nor professionals in modern hierarchical institutions, but public intellectuals with sensibility to public issues as well as social responsibility and reason. The paper points out that the potency of cultural critique lies not in its aesthetic or moral dimension, but in its political dimension.
First Page
4
Last Page
11
Recommended Citation
Tao, Dongfeng. 2012. "On the Publicity of Cultural Critique." Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art 32, (2): pp.4-11. https://tsla.researchcommons.org/journal/vol32/iss2/11
