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Space, politics and aesthetics / Mustafa Dike�c.

Summary:

Explores the force of aesthetic experience and the role of space in political thinking. Mustafa Dike�A� reveals the aesthetic premises that underlie Hannah Arendt, Jean-Luc Nancy and Jacques Ranci�A�re's political thinking, and demonstrates how their politics depend on the construction and apprehension of worlds through spatial forms and distributions. Exploring these dimensions of the political, he argues that politics is about how perceive and relate to the world. Space is a form of appearance and a mode of actuality, and the disruption of such forms and modes is the sublime element in politics. Key Features. Investigates politics and the political in the work of Hannah Arendt, Jean-Luc Nancy and Jacques Ranci�A�re Explores the political aesthetic of these thinkers, focusing on their Kantian legacies Gives us new ways of thinking about the relationship between space and politics

Record details

  • ISBN: 0748685995
  • ISBN: 0748686010
  • ISBN: 1474412491
  • ISBN: 9780748685998
  • ISBN: 9780748686018
  • ISBN: 9781474412490
  • Physical Description: 1 online resource
  • Publisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2015]

Content descriptions

General Note:
CatMonthString:september.21
Multi-User.
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 129-137) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Acknowledgements -- Politics and the spatial imagination -- Politics of aesthetics -- Politics for beginners -- Politics in-common -- Politics for equals -- The sublime element in politics -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Type of Computer File or Data Note:
Text (HTML), electronic book.
System Details Note:
Mode of access: Internet.
Terms Governing Use and Reproduction Note:
Access requires VIU IP addresses and is restricted to VIU students, faculty and staff.
Access restricted by subscription.
Language Note:
English.
Issuing Body Note:
Made available online by JSTOR.
Subject: Philosophy, Modern > 20th century > Political aspects.
Urban policy > Philosophy.
Urban policy > Political aspects.
PHILOSOPHY > Aesthetics.
Genre: Electronic books.
Electronic books.


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