ABSTRACT
This chapter reviews alternative views of facticity, prompted by Sheldon Wolin's and Judith Shklar's contrasting efforts at redeeming political theory. It elaborates an approach to political thinking that relies on what Gilles Deleuze, in accord with his ambivalent relationship to Immanuel Kant's philosophical legacy, calls aesthetic comprehension. The chapter analyzes the crime stories of diverse ethnic Americans in brief treatments of Euro Latino, and Asian American and extended treatments of African and Native American examples in order both to treat the ways that facticity emerges from alternative experiential and interpretive loci and to expose the micropolitical differences that obtain across the US different experiential- and thought-worlds. Ultimately Tanaka's role in solving a murder pales in comparison with what he discovers about the micropolitical struggle of Japanese Americans. Finally, what is discernible with a focus on diverse ethnic crime stories is a heteroglossic, polyvalent, diverse set of micropolitical cultures.
