A Comparative Study among Politics, Aesthetics, and Freedom
Abstract
With the current prevailing wave of nationalism and the rise of power politics, numerous uncertain factors have become the new background of international relations and political studies today. Compared to Francis Fukuyama’s verdict in 1992, “the end of history”, the claiming of “the return of the political” has occupied the contemporary, and constantly calling for new approaches to politics. It is in this way that the interdisciplinary studies between political philosophy and the multiform of arts are yielded. Through a comparative study of Jacques Rancière’s political aesthetics and Michel Foucault’s aesthetics of existence, this piece will make a tentative rethinking of the mutual immanence of aesthetics and the political, as well as the philosophical connotation of aesthetics/arts for liberation and freedom of the political, politics, and humanity.
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