Aesthetics and World Politics

by Bleiker, Roland

• ISBN13: 9781403989765
• ISBN10: 1403989761
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-10-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

This book presents one of the first systematic assessments of aesthetic insights into world politics. It examines the nature of aesthetic approaches and outlines how they differ from traditional analysis of politics. The book explores the potential and limits of aesthetics through a series of case studies on language and poetics.

Author Biography

ROLAND BLEIKER is Professor of International Relations at the University of Queensland, Australia. His previous books include Popular Dissent, Human Agency and Global Politics and Divided Korea: Toward a Culture of Reconciliation. He worked as a Swiss diplomat in the Korean DMZ and held visiting fellowships at Harvard, Cambridge, Humboldt, Tampere, Yonsei and Pusan National University as well as the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology and the Institute of Social Studies in The Hague.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
The Aesthetic Turn in International Political Theory	p. 18
Art after 9/11	p. 48
The Sublime Nature of Global Politics	p. 67
Poetic World Politics	p. 84
Poetry after Auschwitz	p. 97
Poetic Resistance to Cold War Politics	p. 112
Come See the Blood in the Streets	p. 128
Poetics and the Politics of Memory	p. 14l
The Poetic Search for Identity and Community	p. 152
Conclusion	p. 171
Notes	p. 189
Acknowledgements	p. 226
Bibliography	p. 231
Index	p. 253
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