The political sublime

by Shapiro, Michael J.

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Title Statements

Full title :The political sublime / Michael J. Shapiro.

Summary

"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 analysis 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 formations. He approaches the sublime through a range of artistic and cultural texts that address social crises and natural disasters, 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 initiative. 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."--

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2018

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Duke University Press
Place of Publication:Durham
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2018

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (213 pages)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780822372059, 0822372053
oclc:on1004512175
LC Classification:BH301.S7
Dewey Decimal:111/.85

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.

Subjects

Aesthetics -- Political aspects Ästhetik Das Erhabene PHILOSOPHY -- Ethics & Moral Philosophy PHILOSOPHY -- Metaphysics Political science -- Philosophy Politik Politische Ästhetik Politische Philosophie Sublime -- Aspect politique Sublime, The ; Political aspects