"Unease in Aesthetics" Jacques Rancière / Shoichi Matsuba / Ryosuke Shiina Price: ¥3300 → ¥2700 Price: ¥3,000 + tax On sale at bookstores July 7, 2025 Four-six size, hardcover, round spine, cover design, 240 pages ISBN978-4-900997-79-0 Cover design: #ShunichiHazama Cover photo: #ChihiroMinato A truly radical aesthetic theory that liberates the paradoxes of aesthetics as an impure domain into the dimension of political transformation. Radically reexamines the discourse of aesthetics, which has been conducted in either the realm of the ideal beauty or the work itself, as an "impure thing" where the two realms coexist. From the reorganization of the "distribution of the sensible" by art, freed from the yoke of mimesis, a collection of thoughts that establishes the logic of aesthetics in art and politics. "Aesthetics is accused of making art 'anything goes,' and also of leading art astray with dubious promises such as philosophical absolutes and social revolution. My intention is not to 'defend' aesthetics, but to help clarify what this word means, to clarify what it means as a functional system and matrix of discourse for art, and as a form that identifies the specificity of art, redistributing the relationships between sensory experiences in various forms." (From the "Introduction" of this book) #Inscript #JacquesRancière #ShoichiMatsuba #RyosukeShiina #book #philosophy/philosophy