From Disinterestedness to Engagement - OpenArchive@CBS

Index
Chapter 0 Prologue p.7
Chapter 1 In Medias Res p.9
Canapes Are Not Provided p.12
An Existential Crisis p.13
A Facelifte Dead Body – Who Cares? p.14
1.1 There Is Something Rotten....In the Cultural Sector p.16
A Crisis of Legitimacy? Situating the Project p.20
Research Aim – Jamming the System p.23
1.2 Designing the Research Project p.24
The Research Question p.26
On Reflexivity – a Few Precautionay Words p.27
Construction an Empirical Field – the Cultural Sector p.29
Constructing a Research Focus – Performing Leadership Narratively p.31
Theoretical Framwork p.33
1.3 The Thesis p.33
Chapter 2 Epistemological Framework, Methodological Reflections,
Methods p.36
Doing Social Constructionist Research p.36
2.1 Some Key Assumptions p.38
2.2 Narratives – Plot, Meaning and Performativity p.43
Narratives – Structural Aspects p.45
Plot as Process – the Best Fit p.51
Making Meaning p.54
Performativity of Narratives p.60
2.3 Methodology and Methods p.61
Chapter 3 The Quest for Freedom p.70
3.1 The Problem of Aesthetics p.73
Kantian Disinterestedness – Aesthetic Judgments and the Genius p.76
Kant’s Contributions and the Hero of Knowledge p.80
Reserving Autonomy to Artworks p.81
3.2 Art for Art’s Sake p.82
Contributions by the Art for Art’s Sake Movement p.87
3.3 Cultural Policies and the Arm’s Length Principle p.88
Supporting, but not Steering p.93
Democratization of Culture p.97
Contribution of the Arm’s Length Principle and Cultural Policies p.99
3.4 What Counts as Leadership in the Cultural Sector p.100
From Au-delà to a Cultural Sector p.103
Chapter 4 Challenging the Myth p.106
4.1 White Cube for Some and White Queue for Others p.110
4.2 Expressive Lives and the Cultural Entrepreneur p.116
Blurring the Borders of the Artworld p.117
The Post Highbrow-Snob World p.120
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