{"product_id":"justice-dissent-and-the-sublime-mark-canuel-9781421405872","title":"Justice, Dissent, and the Sublime","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRead the Romantics from the perspective of both political theory and literary studies--and consider justice through the lens of the sublime.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the past ten years, theorists from Elaine Scarry to Roger Scruton have devoted renewed attention to the aesthetic of beauty. Part of their discussions claim that beauty--because it arises from a sense of proportion, symmetry, or reciprocity--provides a model for justice. \u003ci\u003eJustice, Dissent, and the Sublime\u003c\/i\u003e makes a significant departure from this mode of thinking. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMark Canuel argues that the emphasis on beauty unwittingly reinforces, in the name of justice, the constraints of uniformity and conventionality. He calls for a more flexible and inclusive connection between aesthetics and justice, one founded on the Kantian concept of the sublime. The sublime captures the roles that asymmetry, complaint, and disagreement play in a complete understanding of a just society--a point, the author maintains, that was appreciated by a number of Romantic writers, including Mary Shelley.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCanuel draws interesting connections between the debate about beauty and justice and issues in cosmopolitanism, queer theory, and animal studies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mark Canuel\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1421405873\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781421405872\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Johns Hopkins University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/01\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.80lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 5.80w x 0.70d","brand":"Mark Canuel","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48088210112767,"sku":"9781421405872","price":55.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_18dbe27e-f5bd-4673-8512-88db4e5c83a2.jpg?v=1769103666","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/justice-dissent-and-the-sublime-mark-canuel-9781421405872","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}