Our sense of the real (Aesthetic experience and arendtian politics)
- Type Paperback
- Publisher CORNELL
- Author/s Kimberley, Curtis
- ISBN13 9780801486401
- ISBN10 0801486408
Our sense of the real (Aesthetic experience and arendtian politics)
Arguing that oblivion and radical forgetfulness of others are among the most ethically troubling features of our political landscape, Curtis shows that Arendt's aesthetic account of politics offers us an idiom in which to name and resist the depravations and dangers of our political condition. Curtis also elucidates Arendt's debt to phenomenology and argues that our sense of reality is born through highly charged sensuous provocation and mutual responsiveness. Arendt's innovation is to recognize that this countenancing of others is an aesthetic experience that creates the political world.
Curtis plumbs the relevance of this work in current issues such as gated communities for the privileged and prisons for the disenfranchised, and in the extraordinary relationship between a black civil rights leader and a Ku Klux Klan officer. Our Sense of the Real is a poetic invocation of Arendt's politics, at once lively, passionate, and crucial.
- Type Paperback
- Publisher CORNELL
- Author/s Kimberley, Curtis
- ISBN13 9780801486401
- ISBN10 0801486408