Face Politics Contributor(s): Edkins, Jenny (Author) |
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ISBN: 041567218X ISBN-13: 9780415672184 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $59.80 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2015 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Political Science | History & Theory - General - Philosophy | Political - Political Science | Political Process - Campaigns & Elections |
Dewey: 320.01 |
LCCN: 2014038016 |
Series: Interventions |
Physical Information: 0.49" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (0.73 lbs) 212 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: The face is central to contemporary politics. In Deleuze and Guattari's work on faciality we find an assertion that the face is a particular politics, and dismantling the face is also a politics. This book explores the politics of such diverse issues as images and faces in photographs and portraits; expressive faces; psychology and neuroscience; face recognition; face blindness; facial injury, disfigurement and face transplants through questions such as:
The book opens up a vast field of further research that needs to be taken forward to begin to address the politics of the face more fully, and to elaborate the alternative forms of personhood and politics that dismantling the face opens to view. The book will be agenda-setting for scholars located in the field of international politics in particular but cognate areas as well who want to pursue the implications of face politics for the crucial questions of subjectivity, sovereignty and personhood. |