The political sublime
In The Political Sublime Michael J. Shapiro formulates an original politics of aesthetics through an analysis of the experience of the sublime. Turning away from Kant's evaluation of the sublime experience as a validation of the existence of a universal common sense, Shapiro draws on Deleuze, Lyotard, and Rancière to show how incomprehensible events and dilemmas provide openings for new political formulations. He approaches the sublime through a range of artistic and cultural texts that address…
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- Full title :The political sublime / Michael J. Shapiro.
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In The Political Sublime Michael J. Shapiro formulates an original politics of aesthetics through an analysis of the experience of the sublime. Turning away from Kant's evaluation of the sublime experience as a validation of the existence of a universal common sense, Shapiro draws on Deleuze, Lyotard, and Rancière to show how incomprehensible events and dilemmas provide openings for new political formulations. He approaches the sublime through a range of artistic and cultural texts that address social crises and natural disasters, ranging from the writing of James Baldwin and Ta-Nehisi Coates to the films of Ingmar Bergman and Spike Lee; these works suggest ways to channel the disruptive effects of the sublime into resistance to authority and innovative political initiatives. Whether stemming from the threat of nuclear annihilation or the aftermath of an earthquake, the violence of racism and terrorism or the devastation of industrialism, sublime experience, Shapiro contends, allows for a rethinking of events in ways that reveal, redistribute, and create conditions of possibility for alternative communities of sense. Book jacket.
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- Publication Date:©2018
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Duke University Press
- Place of Publication:Durham
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2018
The Physical Object
- Description:213 pages : : illustrations ; : 23 cm.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780822370338, 0822370336, 9780822370529, 0822370522
- oclc:ocn987796423
- LC Classification:BH301.S7
- Dewey Decimal:111/.85
Table of Contents
The insistence of the sublime -- When the earth moves: toward a political sublime -- The racial sublime -- The nuclear sublime -- The industrial sublime -- The 9/11 terror sublime -- Afterword: It's all about duration.
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