Space, Politics and Aesthetics (Taking on the Political) - Hardcover

Mustafa Dikec

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0748685979 ISBN 13: 9780748685974

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press, 2015

Synopsis

This book explores the relationship between space, politics and aesthetics through an engagement with Arendt, Ranciere and Nancy. This book explores the political force of aesthetic experience and the role space plays in politics. It argues that politics is about forms of perceiving the world and modes of relating to it. How this world is constructed, disclosed and disrupted are matters of politics, and so Space, Politics and Aesthetics offers an understanding of politics based on apprehension and revelation. This implies a particular relationship between space and politics; rather than a given background for relations between things, space here implies a capacity for things to appear and exhibit relations of simultaneity and order. This book argues that space is a form of appearance and a mode of actuality, and the disruption of such forms and modes is the sublime element in politics. It explores the political aesthetic of Arendt, Ranciere and Nancy, focusing on their Kantian legacies. It proposes new ways of conceptualising space and thinking about the relationship between space and politics.

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About the Author

Mustafa Dikec is Professor of Urban Studies at the Ecole d'urbanisme de Paris.

From the Back Cover

Explores the force of aesthetic experience and the role space plays in political thinkingFocusing on the works of Hannah Arendt, Jean-Luc Nancy, and Jacques Rancière, 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 Dikeç 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.?Provides a detailed investigation of politics and the political in the work of Hannah Arendt, Jean-Luc Nancy, and Jacques Rancière?Explores the political aesthetic of these thinkers, focusing on their Kantian legacies?Proposes new ways of thinking about the relationship between space and politicsMustafa Dikeç is Professor at the Ecole d’urbanisme de Paris. He is the author of Badlands of the Republic: Space, Politics and Urban Policy (2007, Blackwell), and co-editor of Extending Hospitality: Giving Space, Taking Time (2009, Edinburgh University Press). He is currently working on a book on urban revolts, Urban Rage (Yale University Press), and completing a research project on the politics of time in nineteenth-century Paris.

Edition details

• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0748685979
• ISBN 13: 9780748685974
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224