Panagia The Political Life of Sensation

1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9081-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 232 Seiten

A work of political theory arguing that sensation—the taste of chocolate, the noise of a crowd, the visual impressions of film images—plays a crucial role of political life.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Panagia, Davide

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Illustrations xi

Acknowledgments: Grazie xiii

Prologue: Narratocracy and the Contours of Political Life 1

1. From Nomos to Nomad: Kant, Deleuze, and Rancière on Sensation 21

2. The Piazza, the Edicola, and the Noise of the Utterance 45

3. Machiavelli's Theory of Sensation and Florence's Vita Festiva 74

4. The Viewing Subject: Caravaggio, Bacon, and The Ring 96

5. "You're Eating Too Fast!" Slow Food's Ethos of Convivium 123

Epilogue: "The Photograph's Tell It All": On an Ethics of Appearance 149

Notes 155

Bibliography 189

Index 201

Über Autor(innen)

Davide Panagia is Canada Research Chair in Cultural Studies at Trent University in Peterborough, Ontario. He is the author of The Poetics of Political Thinking, also published by Duke University Press.