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The Aesthetico-Political
By Martín Plot
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Description
First, Carl Schmitt and Claude Lefort help delineate the contours of an aesthetico-political understanding of democracy, which is developed further by studying Merleau-Ponty, Rancière, and Arendt.
The ideas of Merleau-Ponty serve to establish a general "ontological" framework that aims to contest the dominant currents in contemporary democratic theory. It is argued that Merleau-Ponty, Arendt, and Rancière share a general understanding of the political as the contingently contested spaces and times of appearances. However, the articulation of their thought leads to reconsider and explore under-theorized as well as controversial dimensions of their work.
This search for new connections between the political and the aesthetic thought of Arendt and Merleau-Ponty on one hand and the current widespread interest in Rancière's aesthetic politics on the other make this book a unique study that will appeal to anyone who is interested in political theory and contemporary continental philosophy.
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
182
Release Date:
2014-10-23
Publication Date:
2014-12-18
Publisher:
Bloomsbury 3PL
Languages:
Original:
English
ISBN10:
1441196633
ISBN13:
9781441196637
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Weight:
423 g
Height:
157 cm
Width:
235 cm
Thickness:
15 cm
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