Ranci鑽e's Sentiments (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780822370222)

In Ranci鑽e's Sentiments Davide Panagia explores Jacques Ranci鑽e's aesthetics of politics as it informs his radical democratic theory of participation. Attending to diverse practices of everyday living and doing--of form, style, and scenography--in Ranci鑽e's writings, Panagia characterizes Ranci鑽e as a sentimental thinker for whom the aesthetic is indistinguishable from the political. Rather than providing prescriptions for political judgment and action, Ranci鑽e focuses on how sensibilities and perceptions constitute dynamic relations between persons and the worlds they create. Panagia traces this approach by examining Ranci鑽e's modernist sensibilities, his theory of radical mediation, the influence of Gustave Flaubert on Ranci鑽e's literary voice, and how Ranci鑽e juxtaposes seemingly incompatible objects and phenomena to create moments of sensorial disorientation. The power of Ranci鑽e's work, Panagia demonstrates, lies in its ability to leave readers with a disjunctive sensibility of the world and what political thinking is and can be.

Author: Davide Panagia
ISBN-10: 0822370220
ISBN-13: 9780822370222
Publisher: Duke University Press
Language: English
Published: 02/13/2018
Pages: 160
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.50d