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Informationen zum Autor Michael J. Shapiro is Emeritus Professor of Political Science at the University of Hawai'i, Manoa. Klappentext In The Political Sublime 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. Zusammenfassung Michael J. Shapiro formulates a new politics of aesthetics by analyzing the experience of the sublime as rendered by a number of artistic and cultural texts that deal with race! terrorism! nuclear proliferation! and industrialism! showing how the sublime's disruptive effects provides the opportunity for a new oppositional politics. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments ix Introduction. The Insistence of the Sublime1 1. When the Earth Moves: Toward a Political Sublime 13 2. The Racial Sublime 41 3. The Nuclear Sublime 68 4. The Industrial Sublime 101 5. The 9/11 Terror Sublime 133 Afterword. It's All About Duration 169 Notes 173 Bibliography 193 Index 209
