Shapiro The Political Sublime

1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-0-8223-7205-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 224 Seiten

Reihe: Thought in the Act

Michael J. Shapiro formulates a new politics of aesthetics by analyzing the experience of the sublime as rendered by a number of artistic and cultural texts that deal with race, terrorism, nuclear proliferation, and industrialism, showing how the sublime's disruptive effects provides the opportunity for a new oppositional politics.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Shapiro, Michael J.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ästhetik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction. The Insistence of the Sublime1
1. When the Earth Moves: Toward a Political Sublime 13
2. The Racial Sublime 41
3. The Nuclear Sublime 68
4. The Industrial Sublime 101
5. The 9/11 Terror Sublime 133
Afterword. It's All About Duration 169
Notes 173
Bibliography 193
Index 209

Über Autor(innen)

Michael J. Shapiro is Professor of Political Science at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa and the author of numerous books, most recently Politics and Time.