Nikolas Kompridis is Research Professor of Philosophy and Political Thought, and Foundation Director of the Institute for Social Justice, Australian Catholic University. He is the author of Critique and Disclosure: Critical Theory between Past and Future (2006) and Philosophical Romanticism (2006).

• Turning and returning: the aesthetic turn in political thoughtNIKOLAS KOMPRIDISPart I – Aesthetic politics, judgment, and worldly things“Delightful horror”: Edmund Burke and the aesthetics of democratic revolutionJASON FRANKWe feel our freedom: Imagination and judgment in the thought of Hannah ArendtLINDA ZERILLIArendt, aesthetics, and “the crisis in culture”PATCHEN MARKELLPart II – Poetics, theory, and utopian politics Fanon’s decolonial aestheticLEWIS GORDONJourneys to farther shores: Intersecting movements of poetics, politics and theory beyond utopiaLIA HARO AND ROMAND COLESPart III – Receptivity, reinscription, affirmation Recognition and receptivity: Forms of normative response in the lives of the animals we areNIKOLAS KOMPRIDISFor the love of earthly life: Nietzsche and Winnicott between modernism and naturalismMELISSA A. ORLIEWriting a name in the sky: Ranciere, Cavell, and the possibility of egalitarian inscriptionALETTA NORVALPart IV – Aesthetic “seeing as”, politics of the “as if”Blankets, screens and projections: Or, the claim of filmDAVIDE PANAGIAThe aesthetic dimension: Aesthetics, politics, knowledgeJACQUES RANCIEREBibliographyIndex

This is an excellent and wide-ranging collection of essays on political theory through a broadly aesthetic approach; that is, an approach that seeks to reintegrate political thought and action with their accompanying senses, emotions and intuitions.