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Aesthetics and World Politics
Bleiker, Roland Aesthetics and World Politics. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
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| Author(s) |
Bleiker, Roland
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| Title |
Aesthetics and World Politics
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| Place of Publication |
London
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| Publisher |
Palgrave Macmillan
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| Publication year |
2009
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| Sub-type |
Non-fiction
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| Series |
Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies
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| ISBN |
978-1-4039-9575-9 (hardback); 978-1-4039-9576-6 (paperback)
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| Total pages |
271
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| Collection year |
2010
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| Subjects |
A1
750700 International Relations
9403 International Relations
160607 International Relations
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| Abstract/Summary |
This book offers a passionate but systematically sustained defence of an aesthetic engagement with world politics. It argues that aesthetic sources can offer alternative insight: a type of reflective understanding that emerges not from applying the analytical skills that are central to the social sciences, but from cultivating a more open-ended level of creativity and sensibility about the political. We then might be able to appreciate what we otherwise cannot even see: perspectives or people excluded from prevailing purviews, for instance, or the emotional nature and consequences of political events. Drawing on detailed case studies that range from Stalinist Russia to Cold War Germany and from global terrorism to contemporary Korea, the author compellingly demonstrates how images, sounds and the poetic imagination can help us understand - and perhaps even shape - some of the most difficult political challenges.
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