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Under Representation – The Racial Regime of Aesthetics

Autor David Lloyd
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 12 noi 2018
"If there is any hope for the human, and if the idea of the human is of any use to the enactment of that hope, then the aesthetic claims and categories through which the human and its subjects are exalted and degraded must be placed under the most violent and most loving scrutiny. Under Representation exemplifies such scrutiny. The rigorous care with which David Lloyd examines and challenges the entanglement of race, representation and the aesthetic is irresistible and indispensable. Under Representation is a major, and singular, achievement."-Fred Moten, New York University


Under Representation shows how the founding texts of aesthetic philosophy ground the racial order of the modern world in our concepts of universality, freedom, and humanity. Late Enlightenment discourse on aesthetic experience proposes a decisive account of the conditions of possibility for universal human subjecthood. The aesthetic forges a powerful "racial regime of representation" whose genealogy runs from enlightenment thinkers like Kant and Schiller to late modernist critics like Adorno and Benjamin. For aesthetic philosophy, representation is not just about depiction of diverse humans or inclusion in political or cultural institutions. It is an activity that undergirds the various spheres of human practice and theory, from the most fundamental acts of perception and reflection to the relation of the subject to the political, the economic, and the social.

Representation regulates the distribution of racial identifications along a developmental trajectory: The racialized remain "under representation," on the threshold of humanity and not yet capable of freedom and civility as aesthetic thought defines those attributes. To ignore the aesthetic is thus to overlook its continuing force in the formation of the racial and political structures down to the present.

Both a genealogy and an account of our present, Under Representation ultimately helps show how a political reading of aesthetics can help us build a racial politics adequate for the problems we face today, one that stakes claims more radical than multicultural demands for representation.


David Lloyd is Distinguished Professor of English at the University of California, Riverside. He is the author, most recently, of Beckett's Thing: Painting and Theatre.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780823282371
ISBN-10: 0823282376
Pagini: 240
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.34 kg
Editura: ME – Fordham University Press

Notă biografică

David Lloyd

Cuprins

Preface vii
Introduction: Under Representation 1
1. The Aesthetic Regime of Representation 19
2. The Pathological Sublime: Pleasure and Pain in the Racial Regime 44
3. Race under Representation 69
4. Representation¿s Coup 95
5. The Aesthetic Taboo: Aura, Magic, and the Primitive 124
Notes 161
Bibliography 205
Index 221