Why Only Art Can Save Us: Aesthetics and the Absence of Emergency

by Santiago Zabala

Book Overview

The state of emergency, according to thinkers such as Carl Schmidt, Walter Benjamin, and Giorgio Agamben, is at the heart of any theory of politics. But today the problem is not the crises that we do confront, which are often used by governments to legitimize themselves, but the ones that political realism stops us from recognizing as emergencies, from widespread surveillance to climate change to the systemic shocks of neoliberalism. We need a...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231183496
• ISBN13: 9780231183499
• Release Date: May 2019
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"