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Jacques Ranciere
The global triumph of democracy was announced thirty years ago, promising an age of consensus in which the dispassionate consideration of objective problems would give birth to a world at…
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The politics of literature is not the same as the politics of writers and their commitments, nor does it concern the way writers represent social structures or political struggles.
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A work that is not concerned with the use of Freudian concepts for the interpretation of literary and artistic works. Rather, it is concerned with why this interpretation plays such…
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…
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Explodes the complacency of Western politicians who pride themselves as the defenders of political freedom.
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The first book to focus on the original contribution to the field of Critical Pedagogy made by Jacques Ranciere. It represents a significant addition to work on Ranciere as well…
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The critique of modernist ideology from France’s leading radical theorist
Ranciere
Translation of: Le temps du paysage: aux origines de la raevolution esthaetique. Paris: La Fabrique aeditions, [2020].
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Faced with growing inequalities and new forms of domination and exploitation, can the movement of emancipation take on a new life today, or has it been arrested by the powers…
The foremost philosopher of art argues for a new politics of looking
Oliver Davis
Ranciere is one of the most interesting and original philosophers in France today, well-known for his work on aesthetics, politics and the philosophy of literature.
* Ranciere is one of the most interesting and original philosophers in France today, well-known for his work on aesthetics, politics and the philosophy of literature.
Professor Joseph J. Tanke
Offers an introduction to one of the most influential French thinkers, exploring Ranciere’s ideas on philosophy, aesthetics, and politics. This book explains how Ranciere’s ideas allow us to understand art…
Rethinking the role of the radical public intellectual.
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Rethinking the role of the radical public intellectual
This text examines intellectual emancipation, the method and philosophy of teaching devised by Joseph Jacotot in 1818. The book contains a description and analysis of Jacotot’s method, its premises, and…
This work reveals the significant impact of historiography on the human sciences during the 20th century.
Is there any such thing as political philosophy? So begins this provocative book by one of the foremost figures in Continental thought. Here, Jacques Ranciere brings a new and highly…
Originally published: [Caen]: NOUS, 2016, under the title Le sillon du poaeme: en lisant Philippe Beck.
Aesthetics is a historical regime of the identification of art. This regime is paradoxical, because it founds the autonomy of art only at the price of suppressing the boundaries separating…
Aesthetics is not a politics by accident but in essence. But this politics operates in the unresolved tension between two opposed forms of politics: the first consists in transforming art…
Examines why the use of Freudian concepts for the interpretation of literary and artistic works plays such an important role in demonstrating the contemporary relevance of psychoanalytic concepts.
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…
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.
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…
Todd May
Examines the political perspective of French thinker and historian Jacques Ranciere. Ranciere argues that a democratic politics is one that emerges out of people’s acting under the presupposition of their…
Focuses on Ranciere’s central political idea that a democratic politics emerges from the presupposition of equality.
Jerzy Franczak
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…
A leading radical thinker reflects on the state of contemporary politics –
Tracing the history of modern cinema, this book shows us how, between its images and its stories, the cinema tells its truth.
A study of Jacques Ranciere’s impact and contribution to contemporary theoretical and interdisciplinary studies. It showcases the work of leading scholars in fields such as political theory, history, cinema studies…
