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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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