Aesthetic Turn in Political Thought

Turning and returning: the aesthetic turn in political thought NIKOLAS KOMPRIDIS Part I - Aesthetic politics, judgment, and worldly things "Delightful horror": Edmund Burke and the aesthetics of democratic revolution JASON FRANK We feel our freedom: Imagination and judgment in the thought of Hannah Arendt LINDA ZERILLI Arendt, aesthetics, and "the crisis in culture" PATCHEN MARKELL Part II - Poetics, theory, and utopian politics Fanon's decolonial aesthetic LEWIS GORDON Journeys to farther shores: Intersecting movements of poetics, politics and theory beyond utopia LIA HARO AND ROMAND COLES Part III - Receptivity, reinscription, affirmation Recognition and receptivity: Forms of normative response in the lives of the animals we are NIKOLAS KOMPRIDIS For the love of earthly life: Nietzsche and Winnicott between modernism and naturalism MELISSA A. ORLIE Writing a name in the sky: Ranciere, Cavell, and the possibility of egalitarian inscription ALETTA NORVAL Part IV - Aesthetic "seeing as", politics of the "as if" Blankets, screens and projections: Or, the claim of film DAVIDE PANAGIA The aesthetic dimension: Aesthetics, politics, knowledge JACQUES RANCIERE Bibliography Index

Nikolas Kompridis is Research Professor of Philosophy and Political Thought, and Foundation Director of the Institute for Social Justice, Australian Catholic University. He is the author of Critique and Disclosure: Critical Theory between Past and Future (2006) and Philosophical Romanticism (2006).