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Under Representation argues that the relation between the concepts of freedom and universality and modernity’s racial order is grounded in aesthetic philosophy. Late Enlightenment aesthetics provide the conditions of possibility for universal human subjecthood by forging a “racial regime of representation” whose genealogy runs from Kant to Adorno and Benjamin.

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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

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      Publisher: Fordham University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 13/11/2018
      ISBN13: 9780823282388, 978-0823282388
      ISBN10: 0823282384

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Under Representation argues that the relation between the concepts of freedom and universality and modernity’s racial order is grounded in aesthetic philosophy. Late Enlightenment aesthetics provide the conditions of possibility for universal human subjecthood by forging a “racial regime of representation” whose genealogy runs from Kant to Adorno and Benjamin.

      Table of Contents

      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

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