Books by Davide Panagia

Attending to diverse practices of everyday living and doing-of form, style, and scenography-in Jacques Ranciere's writings, Davide Panagia explores Ranciere's aesthetics of politics as it informs his radical democratic theory of participation.

Davide Panagia's Impressions of Hume: Cinematic Thinking and the Politics of Discontinuity is volume fifteen of Modernity and Political Thought, the Rowman & Littlefield series in contemporary political theory.

A work of political theory arguing that sensation-the taste of chocolate, the noise of a crowd, the visual impressions of film images-plays a crucial role of political life.

Illuminates the under-appreciated role of aesthetic concepts and devices - such as metaphor, mimesis, and the sublime - in structuring the thought of political figures from Thomas Hobbes to Jacques Ranciere. This work sheds light on how modes of poetic thinking delimit the questions of unity and diversity.