The Politics of Judgment

Kennan Ferguson

doi:10.5771/9780739159231

Summary

This innovative and theoretically sophisticated book investigates how aesthetic judgment forms the groundwork for understanding political identities. It posits aesthetics as central to conceptions of politics that are based on how people understand the relationship between themselves and larger communities. Ferguson focuses not only on how different theoretical conceptions of political judgment relate to one another, but also on their historical development and potential meaning for contemporary scholarship across the humanities and social sciences. Drawing on recent contributions to philosophy, economics, cultural studies, feminism, psychology, and anthropology, The Politics of Judgment demonstrates how modern political identities depend upon and are formed by aesthetic judgment. Political theorists, social scientists, philosophers and cultural critics will find this book especially useful, though general readers will also be attracted by the author's keen insight into contemporary political questions.

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Bibliographic data

Copyright year: 2007
ISBN-Print: 978-0-7391-0058-5
ISBN-Online: 978-0-7391-5923-1
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 155
Product type: Book Titles

1. Contents No access
2. Introduction No access
1. Claims of Reason, Claims of Taste No access
2. The Aesthetics of Dynamite No access
3. The World as It Finds Me No access
1. Racial Orders No access
2. Performing the Self No access
3. Enigmas of Identity: The Mashpee No access
4. Aesthetic Judgment in the Constitution of Group Selves No access
1. Cartographic Resonances No access
2. Building New Ideographs No access
3. The Politics of the Multicultural No access
4. Social Aesthetics No access
5. Aesthetics as Foreign Policy No access
1. The Gender of Judgment No access
2. Feminism and Wittgenstein No access
3. Judgment, Subjects, Epistemology No access
1. Aesthetic Confederation No access
2. Aesthetic Domination No access
3. Aesthetic Self-Constitution No access
4. Aesthetic Communities No access
VI. Conclusion: How to Do Things With Judgments No access Pages 141 - 150
Index No access Pages 151 - 154
About the Author No access Pages 155 - 155