The aesthetico-political : the question of democracy in Merleau-Ponty, Arendt, and Rancière /

"This study uses new arguments to reinvestigate the relation between aesthetics and politics in the contemporary debates on democratic theory and radical democracy. First, Carl Schmitt and Claude Lefort help delineate the contours of an aesthetico-political understanding of democracy, which is...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Plot, Martín
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2014.
Temas:
Merleau-Ponty, Maurice, > 1908-1961 > Political and social views.
Arendt, Hannah, > 1906-1975 > Political and social views.
Rancière, Jacques > Political and social views.
Arendt, Hannah, > 1906-1975
Merleau-Ponty, Maurice, > 1908-1961
Rancière, Jacques
Democracy > Philosophy.
Philosophy: aesthetics.
Political science & theory.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Essays.
PHILOSOPHY > Aesthetics.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > General.
Democracy > Philosophy
Political and social views
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • The Advent of the Aesthetico-Political : The Enigma of Democracy ; Schmitt, Lefort, and the Theologico-Political ; The Epistemological Regime of Politics ; Conclusion
  • Chapter I
  • Our Element: Flesh and Democracy in Maurice Merleau-Ponty : Deus Mortalis ; Flesh and Democracy ; An Entire Politics ; Conclusion
  • Chapter II
  • The Law of the Earth: Hannah Arendt and the Aesthetic Regime of Politics : Disagreement: Arendt and Habermas ; Political Phenomenology ; Spaces and Times of Appearance ; Conclusion: Political Kitsch and Ideology Politics
  • Chapter III
  • The (Re)Aestheticization of Politics: Jacques Rancière and the Question of Democracy. Rancière, Lefort, and the Political ; The Question of Democracy-In America ; Recapitulation
  • Bibliographic References.

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