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Domainless soverignty :Art and the place of memory in the political thought of T. W. Adorno.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Domainless soverignty :
Reminder of title:	Art and the place of memory in the political thought of T. W. Adorno.
Author:	Roy, Tania.
Description:	382 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 64-11, Section: A, page: 4193.
Notes:	Supervisor: Romand Coles.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International64-11A.
Subject:	Political Science, General.
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3111194
ISBN:	0496587242

Domainless soverignty :Art and the place of memory in the political thought of T. W. Adorno.
Roy, Tania.

Domainless soverignty :Art and the place of memory in the political thought of T. W. Adorno. [electronic resource] - 382 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 64-11, Section: A, page: 4193.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Duke University, 2003.

I align this thesis with the task of historiography in the aftermath of collective suffering. I engage the Aesthetic Theory with Adorno's popular addresses on cultural trauma and the reconstruction of national identity in its aftermath. In this way, I move the text's humanistic concern with expression and the writing of memory, towards political theory's recent preoccupation with the limits and possibilities of civic modes of national identification. Drawing on the resources of Aesthetic Theory, I show how theories of civic nationalism remain incomplete so long as they focus exclusively on civic pride. Reflections on such modes of collective identification must engage, rather than contain, the political significance of emotions like shame, grief or pity. At critical historical junctures, the collective expression of these passions may be constitutive of a national self-understanding. By acknowledging the social and political meaning of such emotion through the aesthetic's work of mourning, a citizenry re-politicizes a history of privatized needs. In this way, the collective articulation of bodily desire, need or abjection does, indeed, constitute a powerful mode of civic autonomy. Even so, Aesthetic Theory consistently alerts us to the risk entailed in such acts of expressive agency. The collective recognition of silenced knowledges and affinities can unsettle a citizen's identity with 'nation'---such recollection may be profoundly disruptive of established narratives of legal right, kinship, territory and memory.

ISBN: 0496587242Subjects--Topical Terms:

212408
Political Science, General.

Domainless soverignty :Art and the place of memory in the political thought of T. W. Adorno.
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520 # $a My dissertation is entitled Domainless Sovereignty: Art and the Place of Memory in the Political Thought of T. W. Adorno. It is a close reading of Adorno's Aesthetic Theory, and an intervention into contemporary debates animating the 'second' generation of Critical Theory. My dissertation highlights and interrogates the sociological and political implications of Adorno's seminal contribution to modern aesthetics. In my view, Aesthetic Theory presents Adorno's most sustained reflection on social suffering. It is concerned with certain kinds of bodily experience that are prohibited from the domain of public communication. Sentient knowledges such as those of mortal shock, loss or desire elude full and transparent expression in the public domain; according to Adorno, artistic interventions allow us to re-evaluate society from the perspective of just such publicly inarticulable experience.
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