The Politics of Judgment

Drawing on recent contributions to philosophy, economics, cultural studies, feminism, psychology, and anthropology, The Politics of Judgment demonstrates how modern political identities depend upon and are formed by aesthetic judgment.

Kennan Ferguson teaches in the Department of Government and International Affairs at the University of South Florida

Introduction

vii

Foundations of Political Aesthetics

1

(28)

Claims of Reason, Claims of Taste

3

(9)

The Aesthetics of Dynamite

12

(5)

The World as It Finds Me

17

(12)

How Peoples Get Made: Racial, Performative, and Aesthetic Identities

29

(24)

Racial Orders

31

(4)

Performing the Self

35

(5)

Enigmas of Identity: The Mashpee

40

(3)

Aesthetic Judgment in the Constitution of Group Selves

43

(10)

Mapping and Unmapping the World: Foreign Policy as Aesthetic Practice

53

(26)

Cartographic Resonances

53

(5)

Building New Ideographs

58

(2)

The Politics of the Multicultural

60

(4)

Social Aesthetics

64

(4)

Aesthetics as Foreign Policy

68

(11)

Aesthetic Markers: Sex and the Single Subject

79

(22)

The Gender of Judgment

80

(5)

Feminism and Wittgenstein

85

(6)

Judgment, Subjects, Epistemology

91

(10)

Contemporary Political Aesthetics

101

(40)

Aesthetic Confederation

102

(11)

Aesthetic Domination

113

(9)

Aesthetic Self-Constitution

122

(10)

Aesthetic Communities

132

(9)

Conclusion: How to Do Things With Judgments

141

(10)

Index

151

(4)

About the Author

155

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The Politics of Judgment

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