Davide Panagia

The Political Life of Sensation

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Produktbeschreibung

The taste of chocolate, the noise of a crowd, the visual impressions of filmic images-such sensory perceptions are rarely if ever discussed in relation to democratic theory. In response, Davide Panagia argues that by overlooking sensation political theori

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. April 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 152mm
• Gewicht: 445g
• ISBN-13: 9780822344636
• ISBN-10: 0822344637
• Artikelnr.: 25887483

Autorenporträt

Davide Panagia is Canada Research Chair in Cultural Studies at Trent University in Peterborough, Ontario. He is the author of The Poetics of Political Thinking, also published by Duke University Press.

Inhaltsangabe

Illustrations xi
Acknowledgments: Grazie xiii
Prologue: Narratocracy and the Contours of Political Life 1
1. From Nomos to Nomad: Kant, Deleuze, and Rancière on Sensation 21
2. The Piazza, the Edicola, and the Noise of the Utterance 45
3. Machiavelli's Theory of Sensation and Florence's Vita Festiva 74
4. The Viewing Subject: Caravaggio, Bacon, and The Ring 96
5. "You're Eating Too Fast!" Slow Food's Ethos of Convivium 123
Epilogue: "The Photograph's Tell It All": On an Ethics of Appearance 149
Notes 155
Bibliography 189
Index 201