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On The Political Aesthetics Thought Of Agamben

Posted on:2021-04-10Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:C LiuFull Text:PDF
GTID:2415330626961387Subject:Chinese Language and Literature
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Under the problematic domain of contemporary aesthetic political turn,this paper studies Agamben's political aesthetic thought under the background of The New Critical Theory.Agamben's thought is based on Bio-politics,which promotes The New Critical Theory.By choosing three aesthetic dimensions,it studies Agamben on the issues of aesthetic liberation,aesthetic governance and aesthetic community.From The Critical Theory,The Post-critical Theory to The New Critical Theory,their aesthetic thoughts are constantly changing,The New Critical Theory promotes the political turn of contemporary aesthetics.As a member of The New Critical Theory,Agamben's political aesthetics is influenced by thinkers such as Heidegger,Benjamin and Foucault.Heidegger's negative thinking on being promoted the formation of his concept of potential,Benjamin's thought on Messiah influenced his thinking on language,Foucault's bio-politics activated the transformation of his way of thinking on reality,and bio-politics became the path of his aesthetic thought.Agamben pays attention to the possibility of overflowing after the radical change in the form of life and reality,and thinks about the liberation of life by withdrawing from the potential perception of reality.Perception of revolution by infiltration in actual life emotion dissolved,The Critical Theory of aesthetic salvation sinking in daily life,aesthetic liberation is rooted in a specific context,pointing to the life in the life experience of crack with potential,Rethinking the way of radical cutting between The Post-critical Theory and the order of reality perception,life create self on the life form of the foundation,Life forms a full life outside the suture of form and law.Governance is the implicit dimension of Agamben bio-politics.By examining the bio-power that permeates daily life in the form of devices,Agamben criticizes the device of aesthetics and language,which secretly construct the false relationship between life and life form.By dividingthe boundary of feeling with a specific experience structure,the gap of life experience is filled with stereotyped perception,and the potential of life is covered by the fragmented perception mechanism.Life loses the possibility of constructing the form of self,and becomes the bare life.The governing of language and aesthetics extends from shaping the cognition of the subject to cutting the form of life,and aesthetic governance advances from the construction of habit and taste to the level of bio-politics.Agamben thinks about community in a common non-attribute way of life.His thought enriches The New Critical Theory's thinking on the contradiction between difference and common community.Agamben takes contentless and meaningless perception to eliminate the bio-power of identity,and reduces life to the existence form of unrepresentable,so as to reflect on the community of modern essentialism.He also examines the differential and discrete community relations constructed by the Post-critical theory,reconciles the freedom of life with the limitation of form with the sense way and form medium shared by life,and constructs a non-essential community in the generation of life experience in the present moment.
Keywords/Search Tags:Agamben, New Critical Theory, Political aesthetics, Aesthetic liberation, Aesthetic governance, Aesthetic community
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