Sylabus
The seminar will cover two major topics: 1. Aesthetics and democracy from political theory perspective (Michael Räber)
Does aestheticization of politics/democracy lead to unfreedom and fascism? (Benjamin, Rousseau, Plato)The counter-thesis (Rancière, Kant, Shiller) 2. How we feel democracy? (Till van Rahden)
Democracy as Way of LIfe (Hook, Walzer)Democracy's poetry: Walt WhitmanClumsy Democrats: Moral Passions in the Federal Republic‘I Know You Are Here. I Feel It.’ On Democratic Forms as Elusive Objects