Space, Politics and Aesthetics
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Edinburgh University Press
Published:30th Jun '15
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Focusing on the works of Hannah Arendt, Jean-Luc Nancy, and Jacques Ranciere, 'Space, Politics and Aesthetics' reveals the aesthetic premises that underlie their political thinking, and demonstrates how their conceptualisations of politics depend on the construction and apprehension of worlds through spatial forms and distributions. Mustafa Dikec explores these dimensions of the political and argues that politics is about forms of perceiving the world and modes of relating to it, with space as a form of appearance and a mode of actuality, and the disruption of such forms and modes as the sublime element in politics.
'What if political action is the very invention of space? And what if we were to see this making of space as a work of art and imagination? With an artistry of his own, Mustafa Dikec brings Arendt, Nancy and Ranciere into conversation with ordinary people shaping their own everyday worlds. The warmest of invitations into challenging political thought, "Space, Politics, and Aesthetics" is a celebration of the sheer joy of bringing shared spaces into being.'--Nigel Clark, Lancaster University; 'Mustafa Dikec's "Space, Politics and Aesthetics" is philosophically profound, politically astute and conceptually powerful. Articulating critical geography with a politics of aesthetics, the work crosses disciplinary boundaries and provides an innovative intervention into contemporary social theory.'--Michael J. Shaprio, University of Hawai'i
ISBN: 9780748685974
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224 pages