The aesthetico-political : the question of democracy in Merleau-Ponty, Arendt, and Rancière / Martín Plot.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Plot, Martín, author.

Contributor:

Plot, Martín, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Arendt, Hannah, 1906-1975--Political and social views.

Arendt, Hannah.

Merleau-Ponty, Maurice, 1908-1961--Political and social views.

Merleau-Ponty, Maurice.

Rancière, Jacques--Political and social views.

Rancière, Jacques.

Democracy--Philosophy.

Democracy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (185 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"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."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Contents:

Preface

Acknowledgements

Introduction - The Advent of the Aesthetico-Political : The Enigma of Democracy ; Schmitt, Lefort, and the Theologico-Political ; The Epistemological Regime of Politics ; Conclusion

Chapter I - Our Element: Flesh and Democracy in Maurice Merleau-Ponty : Deus Mortalis ; Flesh and Democracy ; An Entire Politics ; Conclusion

Chapter II - 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

Chapter III - The (Re)Aestheticization of Politics: Jacques Rancière and the Question of Democracy. Rancière, Lefort, and the Political ; The Question of Democracy-In America ; Recapitulation

Bibliographic References.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781441180469

144118046X

9781501319648

1501319647

9781501302268

1501302264

9781441195661

1441195661

OCLC:

891589578