Martín Plot is Research Professor of Political Theory at the National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET-IDAES/UNSAM, Argentina) and Research Fellow in Political Thought at the CalArts's Aesthetics and Politics Program. He is also the author of Indivisible (2011) and has edited, most recently, Claude Lefort. Thinker of the Political (2013.)
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction - The Advent of the Aesthetico-Political
The Enigma of Democracy
Schmitt, Lefort, and the Theologico-Political
The Epistemological Regime of Politics
Conclusion
Chapter I - Our Element: Flesh and Democracy in Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Deus Mortalis
Flesh and Democracy
An Entire Politics
Conclusion
Chapter II - The Law of the Earth: Hannah Arendt and the Aesthetic Regime
of Politics
Disagreement: Arendt and Habermas
Political Phenomenology
Spaces and Times of Appearance
Conclusion: Political Kitsch and Ideology Politics
Chapter III - The (Re)Aestheticization of Politics: Jacques Rancière and
the Question of Democracy
Rancière, Lefort, and the Political
The Question of Democracy-In America
Recapitulation
Bibliographic References