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The Political Sublime (Paperback)
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The Political Sublime (Paperback)
Series: Thought in the Act
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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 Ranciere 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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