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The aesthetic turn in political thought /

"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...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Kompridis, Nikolas
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2014.
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  • FC; Half title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; List of contributors; Introduction: Turning and returning: The aesthetic turn in political thought Nikolas Kompridis; PART ONE Aesthetic politics, judgment, and worldly things; 1 "Delightful Horror": Edmund Burke and the aesthetics of democratic revolution Jason Frank; 2 "We Feel Our Freedom": Imagination and judgment in the thought of Hannah Arendt Linda M.G. Zerilli; 3 Arendt, aesthetics, and "The Crisis in Culture" Patchen Markell; PART TWO Poetics, theory, and utopian politics.
  • 4 Fanon's decolonial aesthetic Lewis R. Gordon5 Journeys to farther shores: Intersecting movements of poetics, politics, and theory beyond Utopia Lia Haro and Romand Coles; PART THREE Receptivity, re-inscription, affirmation; 6 Recognition and receptivity: Forms of normative response in the lives of the animals we are Nikolas Kompridis; 7 For the love of earthly life: Nietzsche and Winnicott between modernism and naturalism Melissa A. Orlie; 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"9 Blankets, screens, and projections: Or, the claim of film Davide Panagia; 10 The aesthetic dimension: Aesthetics, politics, knowledge Jacques Rancière; Index.