{"id":4253,"date":"2018-09-08T05:19:11","date_gmt":"2018-09-08T05:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/09\/08\/is-art-political-2\/"},"modified":"2018-09-08T05:19:11","modified_gmt":"2018-09-08T05:19:11","slug":"is-art-political-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/09\/08\/is-art-political-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Art Political?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">Some say that art is inherently political because man, by nature, is a political animal (Aristotle) and humans make art.&#0160; By that reasoning, everything humans do is political.&#0160; But if everything from mathematics to entomology to defecation is political because done by the political animal (zoon politkon), then it doesn&#39;t mean much of anything to say that art or anything else is political.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">Art is inherently&#0160; political only for leftists for whom everything is political.&#0160; Another argument against leftism.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some say that art is inherently political because man, by nature, is a political animal (Aristotle) and humans make art.&#0160; By that reasoning, everything humans do is political.&#0160; But if everything from mathematics to entomology to defecation is political because done by the political animal (zoon politkon), then it doesn&#39;t mean much of anything to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/09\/08\/is-art-political-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Is Art Political?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-and-aesthetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}