UID:
almafu_9960010625702883
Format:
1 online resource (329 p.)
ISBN:
1-4411-4995-3
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1-5013-0225-6
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1-4411-9669-2
Content:
"Collection of essays that focuses on the influence of aesthetic theories and concepts on political theorizing"--Bloomsbury Publishing.
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"The growing exploration of political life from an aesthetic perspective has become so prominent that we can now speak of an "aesthetic turn" in political theory. But what does it mean and why an aesthetic turn? This collection of essays aims to answer such questions from a variety of perspectives, to think in a new way about the possibilities and weaknesses of democratic politics.The book first outlines the theoretical motivations and historical conditions that led to the turn to aesthetics. Essays then call attention to the presence of aesthetic themes and arguments in political theory as well as to parallels between theories of aesthetics and politics, revealing how much political theory can gain from making use of aesthetic modes of thought. They demonstrate that much of what is essential to democratic politics can in fact only be disclosed through aesthetic theorizing. A significant contribution to the contemporary debate in political theory, The Aesthetic Turn in Political Thought will appeal to all students interested in the interdisciplinary crossroads of aesthetic and politics."--Bloomsbury Publishing.
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Description based upon print version of record.
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Dedication -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Introduction: Turning and returning: The aesthetic turn in political thought / Nikolas Kompridis -- Part One Aesthetic politics, judgment, and worldly things. Chapter 1. "Delightful Horror": Edmund Burke and the aesthetics of democratic revolution / Jason Frank ; Chapter 2. "We Feel Our Freedom": Imagination and judgment in the thought of Hannah Arendt / Linda M. G. Zerilli ; Chapter 3. Arendt, aesthetics, and "The Crisis in Culture" / Patchen Markell -- Part Two Poetics, theory, and utopian politics. Chapter 4. Fanon's decolonial aesthetic / Lewis R. Gordon ; Chapter 5. Journeys to farther shores: Intersecting movements of poetics, politics, and theory beyond Utopia / Lia Haro and Romand Coles -- Part Three Receptivity, re-inscription, affirmation. Chapter 6. Recognition and receptivity: Forms of normative response in the lives of the animals we are / Nikolas Kompridis ; Chapter 7. For the love of earthly life: Nietzsche and Winnicott between modernism and naturalism / Melissa A. Orlie ; Chapter 8. "Writing a Name in the Sky": Rancière, Cavell, and the possibility of egalitarian inscription / Aletta J. Norval -- Part Four Aesthetic "seeing as," politics of the "as if". Chapter 9. Blankets, screens, and projections: Or, the claim of film / Davide Panagia ; Chapter 10. The aesthetic dimension: Aesthetics, politics, knowledge / Jacques Rancière -- Index.
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Also issued in print.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-322-14628-4
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-4411-4834-5
Language:
English
DOI:
10.5040/9781501302251
