The Powers of Sensibility: Aesthetic Politics through Adorno, Fo

The Powers of SensibilityAesthetic Politics Through Adorno, Foucault, and Rancire\nAuthor(s): Michael Feola\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Northwestern University Press, United States\nImprint: Northwestern University Press\nISBN-13: 9780810137462, 978-0810137462\nSynopsis\nThe Powers of Sensibility: Aesthetic Politics through Adorno, Foucault, and Rancire explores the role aesthetic resources can play in an emancipatory politics. Michael Feola engages both critical theory and unruly political movements to challenge familiar anxieties about the intersection of politics and aesthetics. He shows how perception, sensibility, and feeling may contribute vital resources for conceptualizing citizenship, agency, and those spectacles that increasingly define global protest culture.\n Feola provides insightful engagements with the works of Adorno, Foucault, and Rancire as well as a survey of contemporary debates on aesthetics and politics. He uses this aesthetic framework to develop a more rob.