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civic life
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ethics
film theory
genre analysis
Gilles Deleuze
Hannah Arendt
historiography
Jane Campion
literary criticism
media theory
Octavia Butler
political philosophy
politics and aesthetics
politics and film
politics and literature
politics and the arts
politics of aesthetics
Robert Musil
Vasily Grossman
William Faulkner
Product details
- ISBN 9781399545778
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 31 May 2026
- Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Focused both thematically and methodologically on diverse aspects of civic life, this book elucidates the mentalities and forces involved in the way individuals and collectives negotiate ways of being in common. The chapters feature critical interventions into the civic lives of grief, of things, of Blackness, and of trans identity.
With an emphasis on the historiographic contributions of literature, film, objects and embodied memories of events, Shapiro’s textual analyses treat the way artistic genres supply the critical thinking needed to encourage a more egalitarian and convivial life world.
Michael J. Shapiro is Emeritus Professor at The University of Hawai’i, Manoa.
