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The Aesthetico-Political: The Question of Democracy in Merleau-Ponty, Arendt, and Rancière

The Aesthetico-Political: The Question of Democracy in Merleau-Ponty, Arendt, and Rancière


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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.



Table of Contents:

Preface

Acknowledgements

Introduction – The Advent of the Aesthetico-Political

The Enigma of Democracy
Schmitt, Lefort, and the Theologico-Political
The Epistemological Regime of Politics
Conclusion

Chapter I – Our Element: Flesh and Democracy in Maurice Merleau-Ponty

Deus Mortalis
Flesh and Democracy
An Entire Politics
Conclusion

Chapter II – The Law of the Earth: Hannah Arendt and the Aesthetic Regime of Politics

Disagreement: Arendt and Habermas
Political Phenomenology
Spaces and Times of Appearance
Conclusion: Political Kitsch and Ideology Politics

Chapter III – The (Re)Aestheticization of Politics: Jacques Rancière and the Question of Democracy

Rancière, Lefort, and the Political
The Question of Democracy—In America
Recapitulation

Bibliographic References



About the Author :
Martín Plot is Research Professor of Political Theory at the National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET-IDAES/UNSAM, Argentina) and Research Fellow in Political Thought at the CalArts's Aesthetics and Politics Program. He is also the author of Indivisible (2011) and has edited, most recently, Claude Lefort. Thinker of the Political (2013.)

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Martin Plot’s Latin American background, his experience teaching theory to American art school students, and his firm grasp of debates in contemporary political thought are brought together in this sweeping vision of an 'aesthetico-political' theory. Plot argues that normative political theory needs to learn what he calls 'theorizing from events.' Using theory to go beyond theory, his approach recalls what Richard Armstrong, the director of the Guggenheim museum, recently called for: 'not looking at but engaging with' our times. The political dimension of Merleau-Ponty’s aesthetic and its implications for contemporary democratic thought have been little understood. Not only does Plot’s improvisation on Merleau-Ponty’s radical notion of the flesh, as distinct from body, contribute to remedying that situation, it also explains its importance for radical thought that interrogates the relation between modernity, the political and democracy. Through a ‘coherent deformation’ Plot’s book establishes the basis of the problematic of radical democracy and demonstrates its limits. Just when one begins to think that there is not much new that can be said of the democratic insights at work in the thinking of Merleau-Ponty, Arendt, Lefort, and Ranciere, along comes Plot’s original, insightful, and nuanced reading of these thinkers. Critical of democracy, but not dismissive of it, Plot provides a provocative, thoughtful, and extensive argument for democracy’s reliance on an aesthetic dimension. This is an indispensable book for anyone working on the question of democracy today.


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  • ISBN-13: 9781501319648
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 184
  • Weight: 304 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1501319647
  • Publisher Date: 02 Jun 2016
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: The Question of Democracy in Merleau-Ponty, Arendt, and Rancière
  • Width: 152 mm


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