With and beyond the political philosophy of Jacques Ranciere, this book rethinks critical agency and its emancipatory effects today through an examination of the body.

Comprehensive presentation of Jacques Ranciere's thought on relations between politics and literature in the context of different philosophical currents (Louis Althusser, Michel Foucault, Pierre Bourdieu, Jean-Francois Lyotard) and world literature…

In The Lost Thread, Ranciere
debunks the notion of Flaubert, Baudelaire, Conrad, Woolf and Keats as reactionary producers of bourgeois mythologies, and instead foregrounds the egalitarian and democratic impulses of…

With in-depth studies of Jean-Paul Sartre, Julia Kristeva, Alain Badiou and Jacques Ranciere, along with shorter analyses of Jean-Claude Milner and Quentin Meillassoux, Boncardo asks how Stephane Mallarme became so…

This study uses new arguments to reinvestigate the relation between aesthetics and politics in the contemporary debates on democratic theory and radical democracy.

First, Carl Schmitt and Claude Lefort help…

Jacques Ranciere gilt als einer der einflussreichsten franzoesischen Philosophen der Gegenwart, in dessen gesamtem Werk immer wieder das Motiv der radikalen Kritik an der Sozialwissenschaft in Szene gesetzt wird. In…

In this book, Jacques Ranciaere explores how political relations develop fundamentally from sensual experience, as individual feelings become the concern of the whole community. Since politics emerges then from the…

How Picasso forged an expansive, experimental and personal approach to a traditional genre

Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) was committed to depicting landscapes throughout his entire life. From his earliest days in…