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The Ethical Image Between Fiction and Politics

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This chapter proposes that Baudelaire’s Lost Letters to Max demonstrates how the activist potential that inheres in the aesthetic itself might be capable of generating modes of political engagement no less efficacious than those of more explicit forms.

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Grønstad, A. (2016). The Ethical Image Between Fiction and Politics. In: Film and the Ethical Imagination. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-58374-1_14

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