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Politics and Recognition: Towards a New Political Aesthetics book cover

1st Edition

Politics and Recognition Towards a New Political Aesthetics

By Adam Chmielewski Copyright 2020
204 Pages
by Routledge

204 Pages
by Routledge

204 Pages
by Routledge
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This book outlines a new conception of political aesthetics based on the notion of order as an aesthetic category pertaining to human perception. Engaging with the thought of a range of figures, including Veblen, Honneth, Foucault, Popper, and MacIntyre, it explores the nature of political aesthetics as an enquiry into the ways in which politics and our perceptions shape one another and our moral... Read more

Preface

Introduction

Editorial note

Part One: Philosophy and Recognition

  1. Order, Philosophy, and Recognition

  2. Order in Politics

  3. Politics and Aesthetics

  4. Duty and Beauty

  5. Two Concepts of Recognition

Part Two: Politics and Recognition

6. Moral Agency and Political Commitment

7. Faith and Fallibilism

8. Ostentation and Agoraphobia

9. The City Different in the Land of Enchantment

10. Thieves of the Spectacle

Index

Biography

Adam Chmielewski is Professor of Social and Political Philosophy at the Institute of Philosophy, University of Wrocław, Poland. His research interests lie in social and political philosophy, moral philosophy, philosophy of science, and philosophy of urbanism. He has written books and articles on Karl Popper’s philosophy of science, the problem of relativism, and contemporary issues in political philosophy, and is the founding editor of the philosophical quarterly Studia Philosophica Wratislaviensia. As a social and cultural activist, he put together a victorious bid for the city of Wrocław for the title of European Capital of Culture 2016, and has worked as a cultural advisor for several European municipalities.

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