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The aesthetic turn in political thought
\"The growing exploration of political life from an aesthetic perspective has become so prominent that we can now speak of an \"aesthetic turn\" in political theory. But what does it mean and why an aesthetic turn? This collection of essays aims to answer such questions from a variety of perspectives, to think in a new way about the possibilities and weaknesses of democratic politics.The book first outlines the theoretical motivations and historical conditions that led to the turn to aesthetics. Essays then call attention to the presence of aesthetic themes and arguments in political theory as well as to parallels between theories of aesthetics and politics, revealing how much political theory can gain from making use of aesthetic modes of thought. They demonstrate that much of what is essential to democratic politics can in fact only be disclosed through aesthetic theorizing.A significant contribution to the contemporary debate in political theory, The Aesthetic Turn in Political Thought will appeal to all students interested in the interdisciplinary crossroads of aesthetic and politics\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Receptivity, possibility, and democratic politics
In this paper I present a model of receptivity that is composed of ontological and normative dimensions, which I argue answer to the critical-diagnostic and to the possibility-disclosing needs of democratic politics. I distinguish between 'pre-reflective receptivity,' understood ontologically as a condition of intelligibility, and 'reflective receptivity,' understood normatively as a condition of disclosing new possibilities.
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Introduction to the special issue 'A politics of receptivity'
Global politics is often considered to be an arena of transformation and change, perhaps more so now than ever. The economic crisis, the Arab spring, and the ongoing Occupy Wall Street movements signal dramatic new developments in global politics, inspiring and manifesting new forms of resistance and response around the world. There is a feeling something links these and other events with one another, something pointing to a more profound change in our ways of thinking, being and acting, and in our understanding of, and engagement with, democratic politics.
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Recognition and Receptivity: Forms of Normative Response in the Lives of the Animals We Are
Much of what has driven recent developments in political theories of recognition has been the attempt to diagnose recognition failures as particularly salient forms of injustice – be they distributive or cultural. If we wish to bring literary theory into dialogue with political theory around questions of recognition, as Rita Felski has proposed, perhaps the case of Elizabeth Costello in J. M. Coetzee’s The Lives of Animals is a particularly good, because particularly difficult, place to start. Not least because the failure of recognition at issue here is the failure to recognize—in some full-blooded sense of the word—the life and death concerns of a fictional person. What kind of failure is that? Does anything much hang on it? If so, what? What does such a failure tell us about the subject of recognition? What does it tell us about ourselves? What would it tell us about ourselves if this sort of failure, concerning the life of a fictional person were a failure to which we could be indifferent or unaccountable? Is there another form of normative response that does what recognition cannot? Is there something that political theorists can learn about their own concerns from the way they are figured in literature? How must literature mean for political theorists if they are to learn from it what they cannot learn from political philosophy or political theory?”
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Critique and disclosure : critical theory between past and future
A provocatively argued call for shifting the emphasis of critical theory from Habermasian \"critique,\" restricted to normative clarification, to \"disclosure,\" a possibility-enhancing approach that draws on and reinterprets ideas of Heidegger.
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Normativizing Hybridity/ Neutralizing Culture
This essay takes issue with the way the highly fashionable concept of hybridity has been used to skew our understanding of cultural identity, and render conceptually and normatively indefensible the political claims of culture. It also challenges the current 'anti-essentialist' orthodoxy about what culture 'really is,'and shows that neither 'essentialism'nor 'anti-essentialism'helps us get right the place of culture in politics, because both fail to recognize the identity and nonidentity of culture with itself
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The Priority of Receptivity to Creativity (Or: I trusted you with the idea of me and you lost it)
In this paper I address what Arendt called the \"problem of the new\", or, as Castoriadis put it, the problem of how to make the new \"the object of our praxis\". I argue that the problem of the new requires thinking about receptivity in a new way, making it normatively and epistemically prior to creativity. I illuminate my new approach to receptivity through detailed engagement with Russell Hoban's brilliant novel, The Medusa Frequency
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A politics of receptivity
Global politics is often considered to be an arena of transformation and change, perhaps more so now than ever. The economic crisis, the Arab spring, and the ongoing Occupy Wall Street movements signal dramatic new developments in global politics, inspiring and manifesting new forms of resistance and response around the world. There is a feeling something links these and other events with one another, something pointing to a more profound change in our ways of thinking, being and acting, and in our understanding of, and engagement with, democratic politics.
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The Unsettled and Unsettling Claims of Culture: A Reply to Seyla Benhabib
Criticism of Seyla Benhabib's book The Claims of Culture concerns the normative implications drawn from the phenomenon of cultural hybridity. It also concerns the unaccommodating scope of her modernism.
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