Davide Panagia is Professor and Chair of Political Science at UCLA. His books include The Poetics of Political Thinking (Duke University Press, 2006), Ten Theses for an Aesthetics of Politics (University of Minnesota Press, 2016), and Intermedialities: Political Theory and Cinematic Experience (Northwestern University Press, 2024).
"""This stunning book reveals the tradition of 'sentimental empiricism' in postwar French theory, which makes reading practices and perceptual experiences central to politics. Davide Panagia expertly examines work by Beauvoir, Deleuze, Foucault, and others to show how they challenge mimetic processes of state-sanctioned knowledge with dynamic analyses of difference, domination, and colonial power. Sentimental Empiricism offers nothing less than a new history and interpretation of French political thought.""---Elisabeth R. Anker, author of Ugly Freedoms"