In A Democratic Enlightenment Morton Schoolman proposes Aesthetic Education through film as a way to redress the political violence inflicted on difference that society constructs as its racialized, gendered, Semitic, and sexualized other .
Drawing on Voltaire, Diderot, and Schiller, Schoolman reconstructs the genealogical history of what he calls the Reconciliation image--a visual model of a Democratic ideal of Reconciliation he then theorizes through Whitman\'s prose and poetry.
In A Democratic Enlightenment Morton Schoolman proposes Aesthetic Education through film as a way to redress the political violence inflicted on difference that society constructs as its racialized, gendered, Semitic, and sexualized other