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The Aesthetico-Political: The Question of Democracy in Merleau-Ponty, Arendt, and Rancière

By Martin Plot

Book information

Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Year
2014
ISBN
9781441196637, 9781501302268, 9781441195661
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (3406869 bytes)
Pages
\184
Time added
2023-05-22 09:22:42

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This study uses new arguments to reinvestigate the relation between aesthetics and politics in the contemporary debates on democratic theory and radical democracy. First, Carl Schmitt and Claude Lefort help delineate the contours of an aesthetico-political understanding of democracy, which is developed further by studying Merleau-Ponty, Rancière, and Arendt. The ideas of Merleau-Ponty serve to establish a general “ontological” framework that aims to contest the dominant currents in contemporary democratic theory. It is argued that Merleau-Ponty, Arendt, and Rancière share a general understanding of the political as the contingently contested spaces and times of appearances. However, the articulation of their thought leads to reconsider and explore under-theorized as well as controversial dimensions of their work. This search for new connections between the political and the aesthetic thought of Arendt and Merleau-Ponty on one hand and the current widespread interest in Rancière’s aesthetic politics on the other make this book a unique study that will appeal to anyone who is interested in political theory and contemporary continental philosophy. Cover Half-title Title Copyright Dedication Contents Preface Acknowledgments Introduction: The Advent of the Aesthetico-Political The enigma of democracy Schmitt, Lefort, and the theologico-political The epistemological regime of politics Conclusion 1 Our Element: Flesh and Democracy in Maurice Merleau-Ponty Deus mortalis Flesh and democracy An entire politics Conclusion 2 The Law of the Earth: Hannah Arendt and the Aesthetic Regime of Politics Disagreement: Arendt and Habermas Political phenomenology Spaces and times of appearance Conclusion: Political kitsch and ideology politics The (Re)Aestheticization of Politics: Jacques Rancière and the Question of Democracy Rancière, Lefort, and the political The question of democracy—in America Recapitulation Notes Bibliographic References Index

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