Why Only Art Can Save Us : : Aesthetics and the Absence of Emergency / / Santiago Zabala.

The state of emergency, according to thinkers such as Carl Schmidt, Walter Benjamin, and Giorgio Agamben, is at the heart of any theory of politics. But today the problem is not the crises that we do confront, which are often used by governments to legitimize themselves, but the ones that political...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2018]
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Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource :; 12 b&w photographs
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. The Emergency of Aesthetics
  • 2. Emergency Through Art
  • 3. Emergency Aesthetics
  • Afterword
  • Notes
  • Index