Description: Sentimental Empiricism : Politics, Philosophy, and Criticism in Postwar France, Hardcover by Panagia, Davide, ISBN 1531506704, ISBN-13 9781531506704, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US Sentimental Empiricism reconsiders the legacy of eighteenth and nineteenth century empiricism and moral sentimentalism for the intellectual formation of the generation of postwar French thinkers whose work came to dominate Anglophone conversations across the humanities under the guise of “French theory.” Panagia’s book first shows what was missed in the reception of this literature in the Anglophone academy by attending to how France’s pedagogical milieu plays out church and state relations in the form of educational debates around reading practices, the aesthetics of mimesis, French imperialism, and republican universalism. Panagia then shows how such thinkers as Jean Wahl, Simone de Beauvoir, Gilbert Simondon, Gilles Deleuze, and Michel Foucault develop a sentimental empiricist critical philosophy that distances itself from dialectical critique and challenges the metaphysical premise of inherent relations, especially as it had been articulated in the tradition of Aristotelian scholasticism. Panagia develops the long disputed political legacy of French theory through an exploration of how these thinkers came to understand an aesthetic of mimesis as a credentialing standard for selection to political participation. Since, in France, the ability to imitate well is a state qualification necessary to access offices of elite power, the political, aesthetic, and philosophical critique of mimesis became one of the defining features of sentimental empiricist thought. By exploring the historical, intellectual, cultural, and philosophical complexities of this political aesthetic, Panagia shows how and why postwar French thinkers turned to a tradition of sentimental empiricism in order to develop a new form of criticism attentive to the dispositional powers of domination. This book is available from the publisher on an open access basis.
Price: 109.73 USD
Location: Jessup, Maryland
End Time: 2025-01-04T19:24:14.000Z
Shipping Cost: 0 USD
Product Images
Item Specifics
Return shipping will be paid by: Buyer
All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
Item must be returned within: 14 Days
Refund will be given as: Money Back
Return policy details:
Book Title: Sentimental Empiricism : Politics, Philosophy, and Criticism in P
Number of Pages: 288 Pages
Publication Name: Sentimental Empiricism : Politics, Philosophy, and Criticism in Postwar France
Language: English
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Subject: Movements / Post-Structuralism, History & Theory, General, Sociology / Social Theory
Publication Year: 2024
Item Height: 1.1 in
Item Weight: 21 Oz
Type: Textbook
Author: Davide Panagia
Item Length: 9.3 in
Subject Area: Political Science, Philosophy, Social Science
Item Width: 6.3 in
Format: Hardcover
