Mustafa Dikeç

Space, Politics and Aesthetics

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Produktbeschreibung

Explores the force of aesthetic experience and the role of space in political thinking Mustafa Dikeç reveals the aesthetic premises that underlie Hannah Arendt, Jean-Luc Nancy and Jacques Rancière's political thinking, and demonstrates how their politics depend on the construction and apprehension of worlds through spatial forms and distributions. Exploring these dimensions of the political, he argues that politics is about how perceive and relate to the world. Space is a form of appearance and a mode of actuality, and the disruption of such forms and modes is the sublime element in politics. Key Features * Investigates politics and the political in the work of Hannah Arendt, Jean-Luc Nancy and Jacques Rancière * Explores the political aesthetic of these thinkers, focusing on their Kantian legacies * Gives us new ways of thinking about the relationship between space and politics

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Juni 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 155mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 408g
• ISBN-13: 9780748685974
• ISBN-10: 0748685979
• Artikelnr.: 42480039

Autorenporträt

Mustafa Dikeç is Professor at the Ecole d'urbanisme de Paris. He is the author of Badlands of the Republic: Space, Politics and Urban Policy (2007, Blackwell), and co-editor of Extending Hospitality: Giving Space, Taking Time (2009, Edinburgh University Press). He is currently working on a book on urban revolts, Urban Rage (Yale University Press), and completing a research project on the politics of time in nineteenth-century Paris.