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Political Aesthetics in the Era of Shakespeare (Hardcover)
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Political Aesthetics in the Era of Shakespeare (Hardcover)
Series: Rethinking the Early Modern
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This book examines the relationship between art and politics in the
work of William Shakespeare and others in the early modern era,
with a focus on the relation between aesthetics and sensory
experience. From the 1980s, the turn to political concerns in
Renaissance studies was dictated by forms of cultural materialism
that staked their claims against the aesthetic dimension of the
work. Recently, however, the more robustly political conception of
the aesthetic formulated by theorists such as Theodor Adorno and
Jacques RanciEre has revitalized political aesthetics generally and
early modern studies in particular. For these theorists, aesthetics
forms the crucial link between politics and the most fundamental
phenomenological organization of the world, what RanciEre terms the
"distribution of the sensible." Taking up this expansive conception
of aesthetics, Political Aesthetics in the Era of Shakespeare
suggests that the political stakes of the literary work - and
Shakespeare's work in particular - extend from the most intimate
dimensions of affective response to the problem of the grounds of
political society as such. The approaches to aesthetic thought
included in this volume explore the intersections between the
literary work and the full range of concerns animating the field
today: political philosophy, affect theory, and ecocritical
analysis of environs and habitus. At the same time, political
aesthetics holds its own distinctive promise for reopening the
question of the relation between art and the political domain. This
collection will be an important resource for students of
Shakespeare and the Renaissance, and for those interested in the
promise of current political and aesthetic theory.
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