The Poetics of Political Thinking by Davide Panagia PAPERBACK 9780822337188

The Poetics of Political Thinking\nby Davide Panagia\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Davide Panagia\nTitle: The Poetics of Political Thinking\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Social and political philosophy\nPublisher: MD - Duke University Press\nPublication year: 2006\nISBN-13: 9780822337188\nISBN-10: 0822337185\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nIlluminates the under-appreciated role of aesthetic concepts and devices - such as metaphor, mimesis, and the sublime - in structuring the thought of political figures from Thomas Hobbes to Jacques Ranciere. This work sheds light on how modes of poetic thinking delimit the questions of unity and diversity.\n\nIlluminates the under-appreciated role of aesthetic concepts and devices - such as metaphor, mimesis, and the sublime - in st.