{"product_id":"the-aesthetico-political-the-question-of-democracy-in-merleau-ponty-arendt-and-ranciere-9781441196637","title":"The Aesthetico-Political: The Question of Democracy in Merleau-Ponty, Arendt, and Ranciere","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Martin Plot\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Essays\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis study uses new arguments to reinvestigate the relation between aesthetics and politics in the contemporary debates on democratic theory and radical democracy. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFirst, Carl Schmitt and Claude Lefort help delineate the contours of an aesthetico-political understanding of democracy, which is developed further by studying Merleau-Ponty, Rancière, and Arendt. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe ideas of Merleau-Ponty serve to establish a general \"ontological\" framework that aims to contest the dominant currents in contemporary democratic theory. It is argued that Merleau-Ponty, Arendt, and Rancière share a general understanding of the political as the contingently contested spaces and times of appearances. However, the articulation of their thought leads to reconsider and explore under-theorized as well as controversial dimensions of their work. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis search for new connections between the political and the aesthetic thought of Arendt and Merleau-Ponty on one hand and the current widespread interest in Rancière's aesthetic politics on the other make this book a unique study that will appeal to anyone who is interested in political theory and contemporary continental philosophy.","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45086709055639,"sku":"9781441196637","price":21600.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781441196637.webp?v=1767142985","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-aesthetico-political-the-question-of-democracy-in-merleau-ponty-arendt-and-ranciere-9781441196637","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}