Bleiker Aesthetics and World Politics

2009
ISBN: 978-0-230-24437-5
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 271 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies

This book presents one of the first systematic assessments of aesthetic insights into world politics. It examines the nature of aesthetic approaches and outlines how they differ from traditional analysis of politics. The book explores the potential and limits of aesthetics through a series of case studies on language and poetics.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bleiker, R.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction The Aesthetic Turn in International Political Theory Art after 9/11 The Sublime Nature of Global Politics Poetic World Politics Poetry after Auschwitz Poetic Resistance to Cold War Politics Come See the Blood in the Streets Poetics and the Politics of Memory The Poetic Search for Identity and Community Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

ROLAND BLEIKER is Professor of International Relations at the University of Queensland, Australia. His previous books include Popular Dissent, Human Agency and Global Politics and Divided Korea: Toward a Culture of Reconciliation . He worked as a Swiss diplomat in the Korean DMZ and held visiting fellowships at Harvard, Cambridge, Humboldt, Tampere, Yonsei and Pusan National University as well as the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology and the Institute of Social Studies in The Hague.