Michael J. Shapiro

The Political Sublime

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. März 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 332g
• ISBN-13: 9780822370529
• ISBN-10: 0822370522
• Artikelnr.: 48330395

Autorenporträt

Michael J. Shapiro is Emeritus Professor of Political Science at the University of Hawai'i, Manoa.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  ix
Introduction. The Insistence of the Sublime1
1. When the Earth Moves: Toward a Political Sublime  13
2. The Racial Sublime  41
3. The Nuclear Sublime  68
4. The Industrial Sublime  101
5. The 9/11 Terror Sublime  133
Afterword. It's All About Duration  169
Notes  173
Bibliography  193
Index  209