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2018

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Date de parution

15 mars 2018

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9780822372059

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English

Poids de l'ouvrage

15 Mo

In The Political Sublime Michael J. Shapiro formulates an original politics of aesthetics through an analysis of the experience of the sublime. Turning away from Kant's analysis of the sublime experience as a validation of the existence of a universal common sense, Shapiro draws on Deleuze, Lyotard, and Ranciere to show how incomprehensible events and dilemmas provide openings for new political formations. He approaches the sublime through a range of artistic and cultural texts that address social crises and natural disasters, from the writing of James Baldwin and Ta-Nehisi Coates to the films of Ingmar Bergman and Spike Lee; these works suggest ways to channel the disruptive effects of the sublime into resistance to authority and innovative political initiative. Whether stemming from the threat of nuclear annihilation or the aftermath of an earthquake, the violence of racism and terrorism or the devastation of industrialism, sublime experience, Shapiro contends, allows for a rethinking of events in ways that reveal, redistribute, and create conditions of possibility for alternative communities of sense.

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Publié par

Duke University Press

Date de parution

15 mars 2018

EAN13

9780822372059

Langue

English

Poids de l'ouvrage

15 Mo

Philosophie et théologie

THE POLITICAL SUBLIME

HE AA series edited by Erin Manning and Brian Massumi THOUGHT IN T CT

THE POLITICAL SUBLIM E

MICHAEL J. SHAPIRO

Duke University Press

Durham and London

2018

© 2018 Duke University Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper♾ Designed by Courtney Leigh Baker Typeset in Whitman by Graphic Composition, Inc., Bogart, GA. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Shapiro, Michael J., author. Title: The political sublime / Michael J. Shapiro. Description: Durham : Duke University Press, 2018. | Series: Thought in the act | Includes bibliographical references and index. | Identiﬁers:LCCN2017035993 (print) 2017045061 (ebook) LCCN ISBN9780822372059 (ebook) ISBN9780822370338 (hardcover : alk. paper) ISBN9780822370529 (pbk. : alk. paper) Subjects:LCSH: Sublime, The—Political aspects. | Aesthetics—Political aspects. | Political science—Philosophy. Classiﬁcation:LCCBH301.S7 (ebook) |LCCBH301.S7S537 2018 (print) |DDC111/.85—dc23 LCrecord available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017035993

Duke University Press gratefully acknowledges the University of Hawaii at Manoa, Department of Political Science, which provided funds toward the publication of this book.

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Acknowledgments ix

1 INTRODUCTIONTHE INSISTENCE OF THE SUBLIME

contents

1. 13 WHEN THE EARTH MOVESTOWARD A POLITICAL SUBLIME

2. 41 THE RACIAL SUBLIME

3. 68 THE NUCLEAR SUBLIME

4. 101 THE INDUSTRIAL SUBLIME

5. 133 THE 9/11 TERROR SUBLIME

169 AFTERWORDIT’S ALL ABOUT DURATION

Notes 173

Bibliography 193

Index 209

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acknowledgments

I am grateful for the support of many who welcomed my investigation of the political aspects of the sublime in its initial stages and subsequently in draft form. Thanks are owed to the series editors, Brian Massumi and Erin Manning, and Duke University Press’s Editorial Director, Ken Wis-soker, who welcomed the project enthusiastically when it was in its incho-ate form. Thereafter my editor Courtney Berger managed an outstanding review process and provided important editing suggestions that helped me reshape my introduction. The two reviewers (one of whom was Davide Pa-nagia and one who remained anonymous) provided suggestions that were cogent and helped me clarify my project and make the text’s intentions more intelligible to the reader (as well as to me). I couldn’t have had betterreviewers. Some of the chapters’ drafts have been presented at colloquia and pro-fessional conferences. For the invitations and acceptances that made that possible I am grateful to Yehonatan Abramson, Libby Anker, Marieke de Goede, Brad Evans, Caroline Holmqvist, Sankaran Krishna, Joao Nogueira, Nandita Sharma, Lars Toender, Roberto Yamato, and Andreja Zevnik. Thanks also to Sam Opondo and Andreja Zevnik for their suggestions that helped me reshape chapter 1. And ﬁnally, special thanks are owed to my students in the University of Hawai’i’s Political Science program and in the Pontiﬁcal Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro’s Institute for International Relations, who heard and reacted generously to chapter drafts delivered inlectures. Finally, I want to express my appreciation to the Duke personnel who helped manage the production process—Sandra Korn, Bonnie Perkel, Lisa Bintrim, and Christi Stanforth—and freelance copyeditor Stephanie Sakson.

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