Aesthetic Politics Political Philosophy Beyond Fact by F.R. Ankersmit PAPERBACK

Aesthetic PoliticsPolitical Philosophy Beyond Fact and Value\nAuthor(s): F. R. Ankersmit\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Stanford University Press, United States\nImprint: Stanford University Press\nISBN-13: 9780804727303, 978-0804727303\nSynopsis\nTaking as its point of departure a sharp critique of Rawls's influential A Theory of Justicewhich, like most Western political philosophy since the seventeenth century, considers ethics to be foundational to a proper understanding of the politicalthis book looks at politics from an aesthetic perspective.\n\n To achieve this, it focuses on the notion of political \""representation\"" as the heart of parliamentary democracy, openly welcoming and embracing all the aestheticist connotations of the term. Representation will always present us with an \""aesthetic gap\"" between the represented and the representation; it is in this aesthetic gap that legitimate political power and all political creativity originate.\n\n In a representative democracy, .