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By: Jacques Rancire

Translator: Gabriel Rockhill

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AESTHETICS
ANALYTIC PHILOSOPHY
ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY
ASIAN PHILOSOPHY
CHINESE PHILOSOPHY

06-23-2006
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Jacques Rancire
Jacques Rancire taught at the University
of Paris VIII, France, from 1969 to 2000,
occupying the Chair of Aesthetics and
Politics from 1990 until his retirement.

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INDIAN PHILOSOPHY

The Politics of Aesthetics rethinks the relationship between art and politics, reclaiming
"aesthetics" from the narrow confines it is often reduced to. Jacques Rancire reveals
its intrinsic link to politics by analysing what they both have in common: the delimitation of
the visible and the invisible, the audible and the inaudible, the thinkable and the
unthinkable, the possible and the impossible.

INTRODUCTORY PHILOSOPHY
MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE
PHILOSOPHY
METAPHYSICS
MODERN PHILOSOPHY
(SIXTEENTH-CENTURY TO
EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY)
NINETEENTH-CENTURY
PHILOSOPHY
PHILOSOPHY - OTHER

Presented as a set of inter-linked interviews, The Politics of Aesthetics provides the most
LESSON
comprehensive introduction to Rancire's work to date, ranging acrossALTHUSSER'S
the history of art
Jacques
and politics from the Greek polis to the aesthetic revolution of the modern
age. Rancire
01 September 2011,
Hardback
Already translated into five languages, this English edition of The Politics
of Aesthetics
includes a new afterword by Slavoj Zizek, an interview for the English edition,
$19.95
a glossary
of technical terms and an extensive bibliography.
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Table Of Contents

PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION

SOCIAL AND POLITICAL

PHILOSOPHY

Translator's preface: The Reconfiguration of Meaning Translator's Introduction: Jacques

Ranciere's Politics of Perception
The Politics of Aesthetics
Foreword
The Distribution of the Sensible: Politics and Aesthetics Artistic Regimes and the
Shortcomings of the Notion of Modernity
Mechanical Arts and the Promotion of the Anonymous
Is History a Form of Fiction?
On Art and Work
Interview with Jacques Ranciere for the English Edition: The Janus-Face of
Politicized Art
Historical and Hermeneutic Methodology
Universality, Historicity, Equality
Positive Contradiction
Politicized Art
Afterword by Slavoj Zizek: The Lesson of Ranciere
Appendix I: Glossary of Technical Terms
Appendix II: Bibliography of Primary and Secondary Sources Index

TWENTIETH-CENTURY
PHILOSOPHY

Reviews

PHILOSOPHY OF GENDER AND

SEXUALITY
PHILOSOPHY OF LANGUAGE
PHILOSOPHY OF MATHEMATICS
AND LOGIC
PHILOSOPHY OF MIND
PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION
PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
PRIMARY READING
SKILLS AND METHODS

DISSENTING WORDS
DISSENTING
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Jacques Ran
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"Jacques Rancire is one of the most important and original contemporary French
philosophers. This book provides perhaps the best available introduction to his thought in
English. Its main contents are two interviews with Rancire...they provide an
extraordinarily concise and systematic summary by Rancire of the main themes of his
recent work across its whole range. Rancire's project is promising. It is illuminating to see
aesthetics as political and politics in aesthetic terms, as a form of the 'distribution of the
sensible.'" -Culture Machine Culture Machine,
"[A]n excellent introduction to Jacques Rancire...Slavoj iek writes in his afterword:
'Rancire's thought is today more actual than ever: in our time of the disorientation of the
left, his writings offer one of the few consistent conceptualizations of how we are to
continue to exist.'" - London Review of Books, August 3, 2006 London Review of
Books,
'Locating the political significance of art has not only gone out of fashion, it has in recent
years become a source of embarrassment. No one has argued against this repression
with more precision, nuance, and undeniable force than Jacques RanciFre ... This book,
with an emphatic "Afterword" by iPek, provides a riveting and compelling outline of the
central elements of RanciFres politics of aesthetics and its relation to his demanding
rethinking of the political.' J.M. Bernstein, New School for Social Research Blurb from
reviewer
'A benchmark, this compact book shows why RanciFre is one of the most compelling
thinkers and writers in France since Michel Foucault adn Gilles Deleuze.' Tom Conley,
Harvard University Blurb from reviewer
'This is possibly the most important essay, despite its length, since Adorno's Aesthetic
Theory.' Adrian Rifkin, Professor of Visual Culture, Middlesex Blurb from reviewer
'A tour de force! Through a revitalisation of the term 'aesthetics', Ranciere is able to raise
novel questions concerning the nature of history, the sense of our modernity, the
relationship between work and art and between science and art, and the peculiarity of
aesthetic experience (showing, in essence, that it cannot be contained but informs all our
forms of life and activities).' Keith Ansell Pearson, Professor of Philosophy, Warwick
University Blurb from reviewer
'The readership for Ranciere's work is highly interdisciplinary. Le Partage du sensible
would be obligatory reading in graduate courses in Philosophy, Aesthetics, Political
Science, French Studies, Literature, and Cultural Studies, where it would be read in the
context of other major thinkers of politics and aesthetics such as Walter Benjamin, JeanPaul Sartre, Roland Barthes, Jacques Derrida, Etienne Balibar, Michel Foucault, Paul
Ricoeur, Jurgen Habermas, Jean-Francois Lyotard, and Slavoj Zizek.' Kristin Ross,
Professor of Comparative Literature, New York University Blurb from reviewer
'RanciFre has insightful and novel things to say about the problems that beset our
understanding of modernity as it applies to art.' Modern Painters, March 2005
Blurb from reviewer

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