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The political life of sensation / Davide Panagia.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Panagia, Davide, 1971-
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Senses and sensation--Political aspects.
- Senses and sensation.
- Senses and sensation--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Perception--Political aspects.
- Perception.
- Perception--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (232 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham [NC] : Duke University Press, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A work of political theory arguing that sensation-the taste of chocolate, the noise of a crowd, the visual impressions of film images-plays a crucial role of political life.
- Contents:
- Prologue : narratocracy and the contours of political life
- From nomos to nomad : Kant, Deleuze, and Ranciere on sensation
- The piazza, the edicola, and the noise of the utterance
- Machiavelli's theory of sensation and Florence's vita festiva
- The viewing subject : Caravaggio, Bacon, and the ring
- "You're eating too fast!" slow food's ethos of convivium
- Epilogue : "the photographs tell it all" : on an ethics of appearance.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [189]-200)and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786612923777
- 9781282923775
- 1282923773
- 9780822390817
- 0822390817
- OCLC:
- 320539105
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