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Why Only Art Can Save Us

Hardcover • 2017 • 1. edition

Why Only Art Can Save Us

By Santiago Zabala

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About the book

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 way of disrupting the existing order that can energi...Show more

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9780231183482

Publisher

Columbia University Press

Published year

2017

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1

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Why Only Art Can Save Us

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Hardcover

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