Davide Panagia is Professor and Chair of Political Science at UCLA. His books include The Poetics of Political Thinking (Duke University Press, 2006), Ten Theses for an Aesthetics of Politics (University of Minnesota Press, 2016), and Intermedialities: Political Theory and Cinematic Experience (Northwestern University Press, 2024).

• Introduction 1PART I – MISSED UNDERSTANDINGS1 Reading Political Theory in Postwar America and Postwar France 332 Mimesis, the explication de texte, and State Thinking 77PART II – DISPOSITIONALITIES3 Jean Wahl, Empirico-Criticism, and the Concrete 994 Simone de Beauvoir and the Elementary Structures of Patriarchy 1165 More than a Unity: Gilbert Simondon's Sentimental Empiricism 1496 Gilles Deleuze: Displacing Reflection 1677 Michel Foucault and the Political Ontology of the Dispositif 184Epilogue 211Acknowledgments 219Notes 223Bibliography 267Index 285

Davide Panagia is Professor and Chair of Political Science at UCLA. His books include The Poetics of Political Thinking (Duke University Press, 2006), Ten Theses for an Aesthetics of Politics (University of Minnesota Press, 2016), and Intermedialities: Political Theory and Cinematic Experience (Northwestern University Press, 2024).

• Introduction 1PART I – MISSED UNDERSTANDINGS1 Reading Political Theory in Postwar America and Postwar France 332 Mimesis, the explication de texte, and State Thinking 77PART II – DISPOSITIONALITIES3 Jean Wahl, Empirico-Criticism, and the Concrete 994 Simone de Beauvoir and the Elementary Structures of Patriarchy 1165 More than a Unity: Gilbert Simondon's Sentimental Empiricism 1496 Gilles Deleuze: Displacing Reflection 1677 Michel Foucault and the Political Ontology of the Dispositif 184Epilogue 211Acknowledgments 219Notes 223Bibliography 267Index 285

Davide Panagia is Professor and Chair of Political Science at UCLA. His books include The Poetics of Political Thinking (Duke University Press, 2006), Ten Theses for an Aesthetics of Politics (University of Minnesota Press, 2016), and Intermedialities: Political Theory and Cinematic Experience (Northwestern University Press, 2024).

• Introduction 1PART I – MISSED UNDERSTANDINGS1 Reading Political Theory in Postwar America and Postwar France 332 Mimesis, the explication de texte, and State Thinking 77PART II – DISPOSITIONALITIES3 Jean Wahl, Empirico-Criticism, and the Concrete 994 Simone de Beauvoir and the Elementary Structures of Patriarchy 1165 More than a Unity: Gilbert Simondon's Sentimental Empiricism 1496 Gilles Deleuze: Displacing Reflection 1677 Michel Foucault and the Political Ontology of the Dispositif 184Epilogue 211Acknowledgments 219Notes 223Bibliography 267Index 285