How do the absolute I, the music of Igor Stravinsky, Jaques Ranciere, and the power to make distinctions resonate? What is the difference between modernism and modernity? And why does everything solid melt into air? These elements and questions compose today's topic: modernism. 

Welcome to Political Compositions, where political philosophers Gijs van Oenen en Jamie van der Klaauw explore the last 250 years of political, social, and cultural philosophy. 

Join us in confronting the foremost philosophers, movements, and ideas from past and present which compose political philosophy today.