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Explores and illuminates Ranciaere’s profound impact on our understanding of literary modernism –
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Robert Boncardo,Christian R. Gelder
Featuring original interviews with three of the most important theorists of the 21st century, this volume clarifies the relationship between contemporary French philosophy and poetry. The interviews demonstrate how Ranciere…
Jacques Ranciere’s work has defined itself through a remarkable set of philosophical differences in relation to other key figures working in the fields of politics, philosophy and aesthetics. This book…
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Jean-Philippe Deranty
Jacques Ranciere’s thinking brings a fresh, innovative approach to many fields, notably the study of work, education, politics, literature, film, art, as well as philosophy. This title offers an introduction…
Es sind die zugleich politischen und asthetischen Einsatzpunkte Jacques Rancieres, die das padagogische Nachdenken herausfordern: Angesprochen sind damit etwa die Intervention in ein- wie ausschliessende ‘Ordnungen des Sinnlichen’, die Artikulation…
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Jacques Ranciere (University of Paris VIII, France)
Presents the foundations of the author’s theoretical project. This title marks the moment at which he emerges from the tutelage of his mentor, Louis Althusser, and begins to outline the…
Tracing the history of modern cinema, this book shows us how, between its images and its stories, the cinema tells its truth.
Dr Devin Zane Shaw (University of Ottawa, Canada)
Jacques Ranciere’s work has challenged many of the assumptions of contemporary continental philosophy by placing equality at the forefront of emancipatory political thought and aesthetics. Drawing on the claim that…
Tina Chanter (Kingston University, UK)
Even those who take themselves to be breaking from tradition-from the metaphysical tradition of philosophy, from grand narratives, neoliberalism or Eurocentrism-can remain blindly attached to them. Art, Politics and Ranciere…
Dissenting Words is a lively and engaging collection of interviews that span the length of Jacques Ranciere’s trajectory, from the critique of Althusserian Marxism and the work on proletarian thinking…
Professor Charles Bingham,Professor Gert Biesta (Maynooth University, Ireland)
Demonstrates the importance of Ranciere’s educational thought and how educational theory needs to be informed by his philosophical project. This book illustrates how philosophy can benefit from Ranciere’s particular way…
A collection that examines the work of cultural and political theorist Jacques Ranciere.
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This special issue of Paragraph brings together new essays on the work of Jacques Ranciere by thinkers from a range of disciplines and critical perspectives.
Drawing on case studies of films including Charlie Kaufman’s ‘Synecdoche, New York’, Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s ‘Climates’ and John Akomfrah’s ‘The Nine Muses’, this books asks to what extent is politics…
James Harvey
Drawing on case studies of films including Charlie Kaufman’s Synecdoche, New York, Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s Climates and John Akomfrah’s The Nine Muses, this books asks to what extent is politics…
Jane McDonnell
This book introduces readers to the writing of the French philosopher, Jacques Ranciere, and discusses the uptake of his work in education.
Jacques Ranciere
Ranciere’s classic essays from the 1970s, as he was developing his distinctive method.
Explodes the complacency of Western politicians who pride themselves as the defenders of political freedom.
The Turkic soundscape is both geographically huge and culturally diverse. Although the Turkic peoples of the world can trace their linguistic and genetic ancestries to common sources, their extensive geographical…
An essential analysis of cinema from one of the great figures of French philosophy.
This new collection of challenging literary studies plays with a foundational definition of Western culture: the word become flesh. But the word become flesh is not, or is no longer…
An essential analysis of cinema from one of the great figures of French philosophy
Developing a concept of the image in contemporary art, this title shows how art and politics have always been intrinsically intertwined. Covering a range of art movements, and thinkers such…
Gives politics the following meaning: the organization of dissent.
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A classic text by Ranciere on the intellectual thought of French workers in the 19th century.
Moments Politiques collects the short essays and interviews of Jacques Ranciere from a span of thirty years, 1977 to 2007. Sparked by specific events in European and world news as…
* Jacques Ranciere is a leading French philosopher, particularly well known for his work in aesthetics and political philosophy * In this concise and brilliant text, Ranciere presents a thoughtful…
Translated from: La maethode de l'aegalitae.
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Ranciere’s magnum opus on the aesthetic.
Translation of: Les bords de la fiction.
From Almanac of Fall (1984) to The Turin Horse (2011), renowned Hungarian filmmaker Bela Tarr has followed the collapse of the communist promise. The time after is the time when…
Nick Hewlett
Bringing together three contemporary French philosophers, Alain Badiou, Etienne Balibar, and Jacques Ranciere, the author examines the political aspects of their work. He also identifies and explores problems in each…
