Spaces of Appearance
Aesthetics and Politics After Analogy
1st Edition
Published on 9. December 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
282 pages
978-3-8376-7761-4 (ISBN)
Description
Present whenever people act together and yet never seen for what they do, spaces of appearance come in many guises: a car crash in Vienna, a discussion forum in Dresden, a baker's queue in Paris, an art festival in Shiraz, an unbuilt house in Istanbul, a law court in Berlin, a photograph from Arkansas. Taking their cue from Hannah Arendt's famous concept, the case studies in this volume, written in close collaboration, examine how the perceptive standards of a given political situation may subtly change or consolidate. Supported by a wealth of images, this volume demonstrates how the concept can be activated for innovative research - especially in cases where an understanding of aesthetics and politics needs to go beyond their analogization.
Featuring an essay by Susan Buck-Morss.
Reviews / Votes
»Democratic politics, so it is often hoped, will be a >space of reasons,< where the better argument wins out. At the same time, as Hannah Arendt famously argued, it is also a >space of appearances.< This scintillating collection of essays shows that the latter is a dynamic chiaroscuro of light and dark, surface and depth, transparency and opacity, where as much is hidden as revealed.«More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Germany
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Klappenbroschur
Illustrations
85
33 farbige Abbildungen, 30 s/w Abbildungen
30 schwarz-weiße und 33 farbige Abbildungen
Dimensions
Height: 236 mm
Width: 167 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
554 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-8376-7761-4 (9783837677614)
Schweitzer Classification
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E-Book
11/2025
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Persons
Martin Renz (Edited by)
Martin Renz is a PhD candidate in American Studies at Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main. He works as a freelance journalist on science advice and research policy for the German news publication Research.Table and organizes the research initiative Ästhetik demokratischer Lebensformen in Frankfurt. Before embarking on his PhD, he studied philosophy, political science, and the humanities in Berlin, Paris, Frankfurt, and Chicago. Julius Schwarzwälder (Edited by)
Julius Schwarzwälder is a PhD candidate at Technische Universität Darmstadt, where he considers some aesthetic effects of the surging use of algorithmics. In and beyond Frankfurt, he co-organized the graduate research initiative Ästhetik demokratischer Lebensformen. He studied philosophy and aesthetics in London, Frankfurt, Paris, and Darmstadt.
Martin Renz is a PhD candidate in American Studies at Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main. He works as a freelance journalist on science advice and research policy for the German news publication Research.Table and organizes the research initiative Ästhetik demokratischer Lebensformen in Frankfurt. Before embarking on his PhD, he studied philosophy, political science, and the humanities in Berlin, Paris, Frankfurt, and Chicago. Julius Schwarzwälder (Edited by)
Julius Schwarzwälder is a PhD candidate at Technische Universität Darmstadt, where he considers some aesthetic effects of the surging use of algorithmics. In and beyond Frankfurt, he co-organized the graduate research initiative Ästhetik demokratischer Lebensformen. He studied philosophy and aesthetics in London, Frankfurt, Paris, and Darmstadt.