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9781403989765

Aesthetics and World Politics

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    9781403989765

  • ISBN10:

    1403989761

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2009-10-15
  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
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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

Introductionp. 1
The Aesthetic Turn in International Political Theoryp. 18
Art after 9/11p. 48
The Sublime Nature of Global Politicsp. 67
Poetic World Politicsp. 84
Poetry after Auschwitzp. 97
Poetic Resistance to Cold War Politicsp. 112
Come See the Blood in the Streetsp. 128
Poetics and the Politics of Memoryp. 14l
The Poetic Search for Identity and Communityp. 152
Conclusionp. 171
Notesp. 189
Acknowledgementsp. 226
Bibliographyp. 231
Indexp. 253
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