In The Poetics of Political Thinking Davide Panagia focuses on the role that aesthetic sensibilities play in theorists evaluations of political arguments. Examining works by thinkers from Thomas Hobbes to Jacques Ranciere, Panagia shows how each one invokes aesthetic concepts and devices, such as metaphor, mimesis, imagination, beauty, and the sublime. He argues that it is important to recognize and acknowledge these poetic forms of representation because they provide evaluative standards that theorists use in appraising the value of ideas ideas about justice, politics, and democratic...
In The Poetics of Political Thinking Davide Panagia focuses on the role that aesthetic sensibilities play in theorists evaluations of political...
The taste of chocolate, the noise of a crowd, the visual impressions of filmic images such sensory perceptions are rarely if ever discussed in relation to democratic theory. In response, Davide Panagia argues that by overlooking sensation political theorists ignore a crucial dimension of political life. Drawing on Gilles Deleuze s and Jacques Ranciere s readings of Kantian aesthetics, Panagia posits sensation as a radical democratic moment of aesthetic judgment. He contends that sensory experience interrupts our perceptual givens, creating occasions to suspend authority and reconfigure the...
The taste of chocolate, the noise of a crowd, the visual impressions of filmic images such sensory perceptions are rarely if ever discussed in relatio...
