Political Life of Sensation

Name: Political Life of Sensation
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ISBN: 9780822344797

ISBN-10: 0822344793

ISBN-13: 9780822344797

Edition: 2009

Authors: Davide Panagia

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The taste of chocolate, the noise of a crowd, the visual impressions of filmic images-such sensory perceptions are rarely if ever discussed in relation to democratic theory. In response, Davide Panagia argues that by overlooking sensation political theorists ignore a crucial dimension of political life. Drawing on Gilles Deleuze's and Jacques Ranciegrave;re's readings of Kantian aesthetics, Panagia posits sensation as a radical democratic moment of aesthetic judgment. He contends that sensory experience interrupts our perceptual givens, creating occasions to suspend authority and reconfigure the arrangement of a political order. Panagia claims that the rule of narrative governs our…

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List price: $14.99
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication date: 4/17/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 232
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.50" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English



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Prologue: Narratocracy and the Contours of Political Life



From Nomos to Nomad: Kant, Deleuze, and Ranciï¿½re on Sensation



The Piazza, the Edicola, and the Noise of the Utterance



Machiavelli's Theory of Sensation and Florence's Vita Festiva



The Viewing Subject: Caravaggio, Bacon, and The Ring



"You're Eating Too Fast!" Slow Food's Ethos of Convivium


Epilogue: "The Photograph's Tell It All": On an Ethics of Appearance


Notes


Bibliography


Index