BOOK

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

Plot, Martín

2014

Overview

\"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\"-- Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Subject: Merleau-Ponty, Maurice, 1908-1961 Political and social views. / Arendt, Hannah, 1906-1975 Political and social views. / Rancière, Jacques Political and social views. / Democracy Philosophy. / POLITICAL SCIENCE - Essays. / PHILOSOPHY - Aesthetics.
• ISBN: 9781441196637, 1441196633

Item info:

1 item available

1 item total in all locations

Holdings :

Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
JC423.P535 2014	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE