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Author:   Dr Devin Zane Shaw (University of Ottawa, Canada)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Academic
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.20cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.318kg
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9781350037878

ISBN 10:   1350037877
Pages:   224
Publication Date:   18 May 2017
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Introduction: Philosophy and Equality Part I: Subjectivity Chapter 1: The ‘Good Sense’ of Cartesian Egalitarianism 1.1. ‘a history or, if you prefer, a fable’ 1.2. Descartes’s Egalitarianism and the Problem of Separation 1.3. The Rationality of a Wrong 1.4. Woman as Other, Woman as Subject 1.5. Toward Collective Egalitarianism Chapter 2: The Nothingness of Equality: Rancière’s ‘Sartrean Existentialism’ 2.1. Marked By Sartrean Existentialism 2.2. The Politics of Equality 2.3. Between the Practico-inert and the Party 2.4. Subjects of Contingency 2.5. The Politics of Impossible Identification Part II: Aesthetics Chapter 3: Modernity, Modernism, and Aesthetic Equality 3.1. Disagreement and Misunderstanding 3.2. From Mimesis to Aesthetics 3.2.1. Breaking with Mimetic Norms 3.2.2. Mute Speech and Literary Equality 3.3. Artistic Autonomy and Sociology in Greenberg 3.4. Benjamin’s ‘Archaeomodernism’ 3.4.1. The Politics of Art and Technology 3.4.2. Archaeomodernism and Metapolitics 3.5. Fragmentary Emancipation, Common Sense, and Aesthetic Equality Chapter 4: Aesthetics, Inaesthetics, and the Platonist Regime of Art 4.1. The Return from Exile 4.2. Between Aesthetics and Inaesthetics 4.3. Between Aesthetic Education and the Absolute 4.3.1. Aesthetic Emancipation and Policing 4.3.2. Schiller’s Aesthetic Freedom 4.3.3. Schelling on Artistic Production and Practical Reason 4.4. Monuments and Micropolitics 4.5. Heterotopias: One World Divides Into Two Conclusion: The Politics of Aisthesis Bibliography

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The book speaks to an urgent, incomplete task of contemporary philosophy: to be done with its decades-long tradition of scholastic, ritual self-flagellation and get on with the business of thinking the emancipatory transformation of the world. Shaw's contribution to this task is impressive, erudite, and takes a path less traveled. -- Matthew R. McLennan, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Philosophy, Saint Paul University, Canada Egalitarian Moments is a work that deserves careful attention from those interested in putting Ranciere's thought to productive use-to doing things with Ranciere-as well as those interested in egalitarian politics more generally. -- Matthew Lampert, New School for Social Research, USA Comparative and Continental Philosophy The book speaks to an urgent, incomplete task of contemporary philosophy: to be done with its decades-long tradition of scholastic, ritual self-flagellation and get on with the business of thinking the emancipatory transformation of the world. Shaw's contribution to this task is impressive, erudite, and takes a path less travelled. Canadian Society for Continental Philosophy

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Devin Zane Shaw teaches philosophy at the University of Ottawa and Carleton University. He is author of Freedom and Nature in Schelling’s Philosophy of Art (Bloomsbury, 2010) and is co-editor of, and contributor to, “Theory Mad Beyond Redemption”: The Post-Kantian Poe, a special edition of the Edgar Allan Poe Review (2012).

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