The political life of sensation
By: Davide Panagia.
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Durham [NC]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 213
ISBN-13: 9780822344636; 9780822344797
Subjects: Senses and sensation -- Political aspects; Senses and sensation -- Moral and ethical aspects; Perception -- Political aspects; Perception -- Moral and ethical aspects
Description: A work of political theory, this text argues that sensation - the taste of chocolate, the noise of a crowd, the visual impressions of film images - plays a crucial role in political life.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue : narratocracy and the contours of political life; title: From nomos to nomad : Kant, Deleuze, and Rancière on sensation; title: The piazza, the edicola, and the noise of the utterance; title: Machiavelli's theory of sensation and Florence's vita festiva; title: The viewing subject : Caravaggio, Bacon, and the ring; title: "You're eating too fast!" slow food's ethos of convivium; title: Epilogue : "the photographs tell it all" : on an ethics of appearance.