Jacques Rancière: History, Politics, Aesthetics.

The French philosopher Jacques Rancière 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...

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Published: Duke University Press 2009.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Part One: History
  • 1. Historicizing Untimeliness
  • 2. The Lessons of Jacques Rancière: Knowledge and Power after the Storm
  • 3. Sophisticated Continuities and Historical Discontinuities, Or, Why Not Protagoras?
  • 4. The Classics and Critical Theory in Postmodern France: The Case of Jacques Rancière
  • 5. Jacques Rancière and Metaphysics
  • Part Two: Politics
  • 6. What Is Political Philosophy? Contextual Notes
  • 7. Rancière in South Carolina
  • 8. Political Agency and the Ambivalence of the Sensible
  • 9. Staging Equality: Rancière's Theatrocracy and the Limits of Anarchic Equality
  • 10. Rancière's Leftism, Or, Politics and Its Discontents
  • 11. Jacques Rancière's Ethical Turn and the Thinking of Discontents
  • Part Three: Aesthetics
  • 12. The Politics of Aesthetics: Political History and the Hermeneutics of Art
  • 13. Cinema and Its Discontents
  • 14. Politicizing Art in Rancière and Deleuze: The Case of Postcolonial Literature
  • 15. Impossible Speech Acts: Jacques Rancière's Erich Auerbach
  • 16. Style indirect libre
  • Afterword The Method of Equality: An Answer to Some Questions
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • Contributors and Translators