Post-Exceptionalism

Postmodernism has come and gone, but the belief that artists and works of art are exceptional is alive and well. This book challenges the politics of such aesthetic exceptionalism by arguing that when postmodernism declared the death of the author and celebrated the copy, it failed to name political theology as its fundamental target. In a time when sovereignty is experiencing a dubious global revival, the moment has come to reconsider the artist and the work of art after political theology, in search for a new, worldly and emancipatory politics of aesthetics.