Public Art and the Fragility of Democracy: An Essay in Political Aesthetics (Paperback)

Preface and Acknowledgments
1. Democracy’s Fragility and the Political Aesthetics of Public Art
2. Voices and Places: The Space of Public Art and Wodiczko’s The Homeless Projection
3. Democracy’s “Empty Place”: Rawls’s Political Liberalism and Derrida’s Democracy to Come
4. Public Art’s “Plain Tablet”: The Political Aesthetics of Contemporary Art
5. Democracy and Public Art: Badiou and Ranciere
6. The Political Aesthetics of Chicago’s Millennium Park
7. The Political Aesthetics of New York’s National 9/11 Memorial
8. Public Art as an Act of Citizenship
Appendix: Badiou On “Being and the Void”
Notes
Bibliography
Index