Juliane Rebentisch is Professor of Philosophy and Aesthetics at Offenbach University of Art and Design.

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• Introduction: Aestheticization Ð An ApologiaPart I: An Antique Diagnosis of a Crisis1. The Provocative Beauty of Democracy: PlatoI. Freedom and Indeterminacy2. The Slavery of the Tyrant3. The Unstable Democrat4. Clear-sighted, Processual and Totalized Weakness of Will5. Weakness of Will or the Freedom from Oneself6. The Unfree Opportunist7. Many Jobs and Much Trespassing8. The Occurrence of an Inner Nature or the Freedom Toward Self9. Democrats and Theatre Types10. Theatrocracy: The Fearlessly Judging Multitude11. Masses and Mimesis12. Self-Difference and PerfectionPart II: The Ethical-Political Right of Irony2. The Morality of Irony: Hegel1. The Beginning of Morality in Socratic Irony2. Socrates’ Divisive Work3. Irony and the Practice of Truth4. Hegel’s Critique of Kant5. A Socratic Reformulation of the Moral Principle6. Critique of the Romantics7. Abstract and Subjective Freedom8. Evil and the “Natural Will”9. The Dialectic of Freedom10. A Less Rigorous Concept of Self-Determination11. Conflicts with and in Morality12. Hegel’s Expulsion of Subjective Freedom from Ethical Life13. The Riddle of Socratic Virtue and the Historicity of the Good3. The Ethics of Aesthetic Existence: Kierkegaard1. The Negative Freedom of Socratic Irony and its Romantic Superseding2. Self-Enhancement and Forgetfulness-of-Self3. The Impotent Seducer4. The “Helmeted” Will and its Desperation in the Face of the Aesthetic5. Repentance and Duty: The Freedom to Choose What One Already Is6. One Sexism for Another7. The Love of Divorced Society Ladies8. Aesthetic and Aristocratic Exception9. Common sinners10. The Leap of Faith11. Repetitions4. Sovereignty in Romanticism: Schmitt1. Aestheticization and Neutralization2. A Look at an Orange3. Alien Power4. The Other in the Own and Decision5. Political Anthropology6. Schmitt and Kierkegaard7. Political Theology8. “Concrete Life” and Decision9. Schmitt’s Rousseauism10. Politics as a Critique of PoliticsPart III: Democracy and Aestheticization5. The Spectacle of Democracy: Rousseau1. The Irony of the Actor2. The Public Expression of Indeterminacy3. The Actress and Her Parodies4. The Golden Mean5. “Thy Magic Powers Reunite What Custom’s Sword Has Divided”: The Feast of the Brothers6. All Brothers are also Men: The Problem of Male Self-Difference7. The Two Paradoxes of the Social Contract8. The Sovereignty of the Legislator and the Judgment of the “Common Man”9. Another Kind of Equality10. A Politicizable Boundary11. The Two Bodies of the People12. Representation and the Coding of Contingency6. The Anaestheticization of the Political in Fascism: Benjamin1. Charisma versus Ratio2. Politicizing Art3. Astonishment, Not Sympathy4. The Look of the Stranger5. Alienation6. Adaptability and Revolution7. Charisma and Democracy8. Political Theatre9. Post-Democracy and the Anaesthetizing of the Political: A Look ForwardNotesAcknowledgementsOrigins of the TextIndex

Juliane Rebentisch is Professor of Philosophy and Aesthetics at Offenbach University of Art and Design.

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• Introduction: Aestheticization Ð An ApologiaPart I: An Antique Diagnosis of a Crisis1. The Provocative Beauty of Democracy: PlatoI. Freedom and Indeterminacy2. The Slavery of the Tyrant3. The Unstable Democrat4. Clear-sighted, Processual and Totalized Weakness of Will5. Weakness of Will or the Freedom from Oneself6. The Unfree Opportunist7. Many Jobs and Much Trespassing8. The Occurrence of an Inner Nature or the Freedom Toward Self9. Democrats and Theatre Types10. Theatrocracy: The Fearlessly Judging Multitude11. Masses and Mimesis12. Self-Difference and PerfectionPart II: The Ethical-Political Right of Irony2. The Morality of Irony: Hegel1. The Beginning of Morality in Socratic Irony2. Socrates’ Divisive Work3. Irony and the Practice of Truth4. Hegel’s Critique of Kant5. A Socratic Reformulation of the Moral Principle6. Critique of the Romantics7. Abstract and Subjective Freedom8. Evil and the “Natural Will”9. The Dialectic of Freedom10. A Less Rigorous Concept of Self-Determination11. Conflicts with and in Morality12. Hegel’s Expulsion of Subjective Freedom from Ethical Life13. The Riddle of Socratic Virtue and the Historicity of the Good3. The Ethics of Aesthetic Existence: Kierkegaard1. The Negative Freedom of Socratic Irony and its Romantic Superseding2. Self-Enhancement and Forgetfulness-of-Self3. The Impotent Seducer4. The “Helmeted” Will and its Desperation in the Face of the Aesthetic5. Repentance and Duty: The Freedom to Choose What One Already Is6. One Sexism for Another7. The Love of Divorced Society Ladies8. Aesthetic and Aristocratic Exception9. Common sinners10. The Leap of Faith11. Repetitions4. Sovereignty in Romanticism: Schmitt1. Aestheticization and Neutralization2. A Look at an Orange3. Alien Power4. The Other in the Own and Decision5. Political Anthropology6. Schmitt and Kierkegaard7. Political Theology8. “Concrete Life” and Decision9. Schmitt’s Rousseauism10. Politics as a Critique of PoliticsPart III: Democracy and Aestheticization5. The Spectacle of Democracy: Rousseau1. The Irony of the Actor2. The Public Expression of Indeterminacy3. The Actress and Her Parodies4. The Golden Mean5. “Thy Magic Powers Reunite What Custom’s Sword Has Divided”: The Feast of the Brothers6. All Brothers are also Men: The Problem of Male Self-Difference7. The Two Paradoxes of the Social Contract8. The Sovereignty of the Legislator and the Judgment of the “Common Man”9. Another Kind of Equality10. A Politicizable Boundary11. The Two Bodies of the People12. Representation and the Coding of Contingency6. The Anaestheticization of the Political in Fascism: Benjamin1. Charisma versus Ratio2. Politicizing Art3. Astonishment, Not Sympathy4. The Look of the Stranger5. Alienation6. Adaptability and Revolution7. Charisma and Democracy8. Political Theatre9. Post-Democracy and the Anaesthetizing of the Political: A Look ForwardNotesAcknowledgementsOrigins of the TextIndex