{"product_id":"the-political-sublime-hardback-9780822370338","title":"The Political Sublime (Hardback) 9780822370338","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Political Sublime\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eMichael J. Shapiro (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780822370338\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 15 March 2018\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e224 pages, 21 illustrations, incl. 3 in color\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.9 cm, 0.454 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\"The book is lean and not overly theoretically dense. It will appeal to the critically inclined for its original appropriation of Kant and intelligent commentary on temporality and politics . . . What is most striking and enduring about the work is that Shapiro seems to have offered the first figuration of a novel way to theorize individual and collective trauma as political without relying on a primary psychoanalytic dimension or its correlate literatures.\"\u003c\/div\u003e - Mat Keel (AAG Review of Books) \u003cdiv\u003e\"After reading Michael J. Shapiro’s book, I was hardpressed to imagine a more timely work in political theory. . . . The \u003ci\u003ePolitical Sublime\u003c\/i\u003e is not only timely but also the equal of the best examples of recent scholarship in the growing field of politics and aesthetics.\"\u003c\/div\u003e - Morton Schoolman (Perspectives on Politics)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Political Sublime\u003c\/i\u003e 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 RanciÈre 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.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAcknowledgments  ix\u003cbr\u003e Introduction. The Insistence of the Sublime1\u003cbr\u003e 1. When the Earth Moves: Toward a Political Sublime  13\u003cbr\u003e 2. The Racial Sublime  41\u003cbr\u003e 3. The Nuclear Sublime  68\u003cbr\u003e 4. The Industrial Sublime  101\u003cbr\u003e 5. The 9\/11 Terror Sublime  133\u003cbr\u003e Afterword. It's All About Duration  169\u003cbr\u003e Notes  173\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography  193\u003cbr\u003e Index  209\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Duke University Press Books","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52580195533080,"sku":"9780822370338","price":72.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-political-sublime-hardback-9780822370338","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}