Description: Jacques Rancire by Gabriel Rockhill, Philip Watts A collection that examines the work of cultural and political theorist Jacques Ranciere. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description The French philosopher Jacques Ranciere 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 intellectual and manual labor, and analysis of the place of literature, film, and art in modern society have all constituted major contributions to contemporary thought. In this collection, leading scholars in the fields of philosophy, literary theory, and cultural criticism engage Rancieres work, illuminating its originality, breadth, and rigor, as well as its place in current debates. They also explore the relationships between Ranciere and the various authors and artists he has analyzed, ranging from Plato and Aristotle to Flaubert, Rossellini, Auerbach, Bourdieu, and Deleuze. The contributors to this collection do not simply elucidate Rancieres project; they also critically respond to it from their own perspectives. They consider the theorists engagement with the writing of history, with institutional and narrative constructions of time, and with the ways that individuals and communities can disturb or reconfigure what he has called the "distribution of the sensible." They examine his unique conception of politics as the disruption of the established distribution of bodies and roles in the social order, and they elucidate his novel account of the relationship between aesthetics and politics by exploring his astute analyses of literature and the visual arts. In the collections final essay, Ranciere addresses some of the questions raised by the other contributors and returns to his early work to provide a retrospective account of the fundamental stakes of his project.Contributors. Alain Badiou, Etienne Balibar, Bruno Bosteels, Yves Citton, Tom Conley, Solange Guenoun, Peter Hallward, Todd May, Eric Mechoulan, Giuseppina Mecchia, Jean-Luc Nancy, Andrew Parker, Jacques Ranciere, Gabriel Rockhill, Kristin Ross, James Swenson, Rajeshwari Vallury, Philip Watts Notes Collection that examines the work of cultural and political theorist Jacques Ranciere Back Cover "What makes this volume the book that everyone interested in Jacques Ranci Author Biography Garbiel Rockhill is an assistant professor of philosophy at Villanova University. He is edited and translated Jacques Rancières The Politics of Aesthetics. Philip Watts is an associate professor of French at Columbia University. He is the author of Allegories of the Purge: How Literature Responded to the Postwar Trials of Writers and Intellectuals in France.Philip Watts is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of French and Romance Philology at Columbia University. He is the author of Allegories of the Purge. Table of Contents Introduction: Jacques Rancière: Penseur de lenvers / Gabriel Rockhill and Phil Watts Part One: History 1. Historicizing Untimeliness / Kristen Ross 2. The Lessons of Jacques Rancière: Knowledge and Power after the Storm / Alain Badiou 3. Sophisticated Continuities and Historical Discontinuities, Or, Why Not Protagoras? / Eric Méchoulan 4. The Classics and Critical Theory in Postmodern France: The Case of Jacques Rancière / Giuseppina Mecchia 5. Rancière and Metaphysics / Jean-Luc Nancy Part Two: Politics 6. What is Political Philosophy? Contextual Notes / Étienne Balibar 7. Rancière in South Carolina / Todd May 8. Political Agency and the Ambivalence of the Sensible / Yves Citton 9. Staging Equality: Rancières Theatrocracy and the Limits of Anarchic Equality / Peter Hallward 10. Rancières Leftism, Or, Politics and Its Discontents / Bruno Bosteels 11. Jacques Rancières Ethical Turn and the Thinking of Discontents / Solange Guénoun Part Three. Aesthetics 12. The Politics of Aesthetics: Political History and the Hermeneutics of Art / Gabriel Rockhill 13. Cinema and Its Discontents / Tom Conley 14. Politicizing Art in Rancière and Deleuze: The Case of Postcolonial Literature / Raji Vallury 15. Impossible Speech Acts: Jacques Rancières Erich Auerbach / Andrew Parker 16. Style indirect libre / James Swenson Afterword: The Method of Equality: An Answer to Some Questions / Jacques Rancière Review "In his contribution to this excellent edited volume, Alain Badiou situates the development of Jacques Rancieres thought in the intellectual milieu of 1960s France. The defining issue that had emerged in this context concerned the relation between intellectual authority and social action, that is, the problem of transmission of revolutionary experience. Badiou outlines how Ranciere has engaged in a struggle on two fronts in developing a response to this problem... This book draws together 16 critical responses to Rancie res work, which emerged from conferences held at the University of Pittsburgh and the Centre Culturel International de Cerisy la Salle in 2005. The book is organized around Rancieres contribution to history, politics and aesthetics." - Andrew Schaap, Contemporary Political Theory "What makes this volume the book that everyone interested in Jacques Ranciere has to have is its incomparable roster of contributors. Ranciere himself sets a standard of intellectual seriousness, and the contributors honour him by wrestling strenuously with his thought. They illuminate the trajectory of that thought and the connections between the historian of class and the philosopher of equality, the thinker of politics and the thinker of aesthetics. You can see why Ranciere is one of the few French thinkers creating an ever greater excitement in North America." Bruce Robbins, author of Upward Mobility and the Common Good: Toward a Literary History of the Welfare State "This timely collection of essays should finally jump-start the English-speaking conversation about the work of Jacques Ranciere, one of the most innovative political philosophers now writing. His method of equality, his contrast of a stable police order with the political as an interruption of that order by those invisible within it, and his idea that both politics and art involve modes of distributing/partitioning the sensible together form a unique constellation of radical political thinking."--J. M. 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