Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

In Rancière's Sentiments Davide Panagia explores Jacques Rancière's aesthetics of politics as it informs his radical democratic theory of participation. Attending to diverse practices of everyday living and doing--of form, style, and scenography--in Rancière's writings, Panagia characterizes Rancière as a sentimental thinker for whom the aesthetic is indistinguishable from the political. Rather than providing prescriptions for political judgment and action, Rancière focuses on how sensibilities and perceptions constitute dynamic relations between persons and the worlds they create. Panagia traces this approach by examining Rancière's modernist sensibilities, his theory of radical mediation, the influence of Gustave Flaubert on Rancière's literary voice, and how Rancière juxtaposes seemingly incompatible objects and phenomena to create moments of sensorial disorientation. The power of Rancière's work, Panagia demonstrates, lies in its ability to leave readers with a disjunctive sensibility of the world and what political thinking is and can be.

Political philosophy. Social philosophy --- Aesthetics --- Rancière, Jacques --- Politieke filosofie. Sociale filosofie --- Esthetica --- Political and social views --- Rancière, Jacques, --- Rancière, Jacques, - 1940 --- -Political and social views --- -Political philosophy. Social philosophy --- Rancière, Jacques --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Aesthetics. --- Political and social views.

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Aesthetics --- Political science --- Political aspects --- Philosophy

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Davide Panagia's 'Sentimental Empiricism: Politics, Philosophy, and Criticism in Postwar France' explores the development of a political and aesthetic genre termed 'sentimental empiricism.' This work examines the anti-aesthetic, anti-mimetic, and pluralist nature of postwar French political theory. By focusing on philosophers such as Jean Wahl, Simone de Beauvoir, Gilles Deleuze, Gilbert Simondon, and Michel Foucault, the book delves into the dispositional powers of domination, emphasizing the role of sentiments in shaping perceptions and values. Aimed at scholars and students of philosophy, political theory, and French intellectual history, it highlights the influential ideas that emerged during the 1950s and their lasting impact on political thought.

Philosophy, French. --- Empiricism.

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

The taste of chocolate, the noise of a crowd, the visual impressions of filmic images—such sensory perceptions are rarely if ever discussed in relation to democratic theory. In response, Davide Panagia argues that by overlooking sensation political theorists ignore a crucial dimension of political life. Drawing on Gilles Deleuze’s and Jacques Rancière’s readings of Kantian aesthetics, Panagia posits sensation as a radical democratic moment of aesthetic judgment. He contends that sensory experience interrupts our perceptual givens, creating occasions to suspend authority and reconfigure the arrangement of a political order. Panagia claims that the rule of narrative governs our inherited notions of political subjectivity and agency, such that reading and writing are the established modes of political deliberation. Yet the contemporary citizen-subject is a viewing subject, influenced by film, photos, and other perceptual stimuli as much as by text. Challenging the rule of narrative, Panagia analyzes diverse sites of cultural engagement including the visual dynamics portrayed in the film The Ring, the growth of festival culture in late-fifteenth-century Florence, the practices of convivium espoused by the Slow Food movement, and the architectural design of public newsstands. He then ties these occasions for sensation to notable moments in the history of political thought and shows the political potential of a dislocated subjectivity therein. Democratic politics, Panagia concludes, involves a taking part in those everyday practices that interrupt our common modes of sensing and afford us an awareness of what had previously been insensible.

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Sentimental Empiricism reconsiders the legacy of eighteenth and nineteenth century empiricism and moral sentimentalism for the intellectual formation of the generation of postwar French thinkers whose work came to dominate Anglophone conversations across the humanities under the guise of "French theory." Panagia's book first shows what was missed in the reception of this literature in the Anglophone academy by attending to how France's pedagogical milieu plays out church and state relations in the form of educational debates around reading practices, the aesthetics of mimesis, French imperialism, and republican universalism. Panagia then shows how such thinkers as Jean Wahl, Simone de Beauvoir, Gilbert Simondon, Gilles Deleuze, and Michel Foucault develop a sentimental empiricist critical philosophy that distances itself from dialectical critique and challenges the metaphysical premise of inherent relations, especially as it had been articulated in the tradition of Aristotelian scholasticism.Panagia develops the long disputed political legacy of French theory through an exploration of how these thinkers came to understand an aesthetic of mimesis as a credentialing standard for selection to political participation. Since, in France, the ability to imitate well is a state qualification necessary to access offices of elite power, the political, aesthetic, and philosophical critique of mimesis became one of the defining features of sentimental empiricist thought. By exploring the historical, intellectual, cultural, and philosophical complexities of this political aesthetic, Panagia shows how and why postwar French thinkers turned to a tradition of sentimental empiricism in order to develop a new form of criticism attentive to the dispositional powers of domination. This book is available from the publisher on an open access basis.

Empiricism --- Philosophy, French --- PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Post-Structuralism. --- History. --- Empiricism. --- aesthetics. --- colonialism. --- critical theory. --- education. --- feminism. --- literary criticism. --- media. --- moral sentimentalism. --- political theory.