Aesthetico-Political

The Question of Democracy in Merleau-Ponty, Arendt, and Rancière

Häftad, Engelska, 2016

AvMartín Plot,USA) Plot, Dr. Martin (School of Critical Studies, California Institute of the Arts,Martín

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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 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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2016-06-02
Mått152 x 229 x 14 mm
Vikt254 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor184
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781501319648

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PrefaceAcknowledgementsIntroduction – The Advent of the Aesthetico-PoliticalThe Enigma of DemocracySchmitt, Lefort, and the Theologico-PoliticalThe Epistemological Regime of PoliticsConclusionChapter I – Our Element: Flesh and Democracy in Maurice Merleau-PontyDeus MortalisFlesh and DemocracyAn Entire PoliticsConclusionChapter II – The Law of the Earth: Hannah Arendt and the Aesthetic Regime of PoliticsDisagreement: Arendt and HabermasPolitical PhenomenologySpaces and Times of AppearanceConclusion: Political Kitsch and Ideology PoliticsChapter III – The (Re)Aestheticization of Politics: Jacques Rancière and the Question of DemocracyRancière, Lefort, and the PoliticalThe Question of Democracy—In AmericaRecapitulationBibliographic References

Martin Plot’s Latin American background, his experience teaching theory to American art school students, and his firm grasp of debates in contemporary political thought are brought together in this sweeping vision of an 'aesthetico-political' theory. Plot argues that normative political theory needs to learn what he calls 'theorizing from events.' Using theory to go beyond theory, his approach recalls what Richard Armstrong, the director of the Guggenheim museum, recently called for: 'not looking at but engaging with' our times.