Political Sublime

Michael J. Shapiro is Professor of Political Science at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa and the author of numerous books, most recently Politics and Time.

"The book is lean and not overly theoretically dense. It will appeal to the critically inclined for its original appropriation of Kant and intelligent commentary on temporality and politics . . . What is most striking and enduring about the work is that Shapiro seems to have offered the first figuration of a novel way to theorize individual and collective trauma as political without relying on a primary psychoanalytic dimension or its correlate literatures." - Mat Keel (AAG Review of Books) "After reading Michael J. Shapiro’s book, I was hardpressed to imagine a more timely work in political theory. . . . The Political Sublime is not only timely but also the equal of the best examples of recent scholarship in the growing field of politics and aesthetics." - Morton Schoolman (Perspectives on Politics)

• Acknowledgments  ixIntroduction. The Insistence of the Sublime11. When the Earth Moves: Toward a Political Sublime  132. The Racial Sublime  413. The Nuclear Sublime  684. The Industrial Sublime  1015. The 9/11 Terror Sublime  133Afterword. It's All About Duration  169Notes  173Bibliography  193Index  209