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Jacques Rancière: History, Politics, Aesthetics
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Jacques Rancière: History, Politics, Aesthetics Paperback - 2009

by Rockhill, Gabriel [Editor]; Watts, Philip [Editor];

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  • Title Jacques Rancière: History, Politics, Aesthetics
  • Binding Paperback
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 368
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Duke University Press Books
  • Date 2009-08
  • Features Bibliography, Index
  • Bookseller's Inventory # Z1-V-013-02655
  • ISBN 9780822345060
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 21st Century
    • Chronological Period: 1950-1999

From the publisher

The French philosopher Jacques Rancire has influenced disciplines from history and philosophy to political theory, literature, art history, and film studies. His research into nineteenth-century workers' archives, reflections on political equality, critique of the traditional division between intellectual and manual labor, and analysis of the place of literature, film, and art in modern society have all constituted major contributions to contemporary thought. In this collection, leading scholars in the fields of philosophy, literary theory, and cultural criticism engage Rancire's work, illuminating its originality, breadth, and rigor, as well as its place in current debates. They also explore the relationships between Rancire and the various authors and artists he has analyzed, ranging from Plato and Aristotle to Flaubert, Rossellini, Auerbach, Bourdieu, and Deleuze.

The contributors to this collection do not simply elucidate Rancire's project; they also critically respond to it from their own perspectives. They consider the theorist's engagement with the writing of history, with institutional and narrative constructions of time, and with the ways that individuals and communities can disturb or reconfigure what he has called the "distribution of the sensible." They examine his unique conception of politics as the disruption of the established distribution of bodies and roles in the social order, and they elucidate his novel account of the relationship between aesthetics and politics by exploring his astute analyses of literature and the visual arts. In the collection's final essay, Rancire addresses some of the questions raised by the other contributors and returns to his early work to provide a retrospective account of the fundamental stakes of his project.

Contributors. Alain Badiou, tienne Balibar, Bruno Bosteels, Yves Citton, Tom Conley, Solange Gunoun, Peter Hallward, Todd May, Eric Mchoulan, Giuseppina Mecchia, Jean-Luc Nancy, Andrew Parker, Jacques Rancire, Gabriel Rockhill, Kristin Ross, James Swenson, Rajeshwari Vallury, Philip Watts

From the rear cover

"This timely collection of essays should finally jump-start the English-speaking conversation about the work of Jacques Ranciere, one of the most innovative political philosophers now writing. His method of equality, his contrast of a stable 'police' order with 'the political' as an interruption of that order by those invisible within it, and his idea that both politics and art involve modes of distributing/partitioning the sensible together form a unique constellation of radical political thinking."--J. M. Bernstein, New School for Social Research

About the author

Garbiel Rockhill is an assistant professor of philosophy at Villanova University. He is edited and translated Jacques Rancire's The Politics of Aesthetics. Philip Watts is an associate professor of French at Columbia University. He is the author of Allegories of the Purge: How Literature Responded to the Postwar Trials of Writers and Intellectuals in France.

Philip Watts is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of French and Romance Philology at Columbia University. He is the author of Allegories of the Purge.

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