Dissensus : on politics and aesthetics / Jacques Rancière ; translated by Steven Corcoran.
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TextLanguage: English Original language: French Publication details: London ; New York : Continuum, 2010.Description: p. cmISBN: - 1847064450
- 9781847064455
- 320.01 RAN
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Dissensus: On Politics and Aesthetics brings together some of Jacques Rancière's key recent writings on art and politics to show the critical potential of two of his most important concepts: the aesthetics of politics and the politics of aesthetics.
In this illuminating collection, Rancière engages in a radical critique of some of his major contemporaries on questions of art and politics: Gilles Deleuze, Antonio Negri, Giorgio Agamben, Alain Badiou and Jacques Derrida. The essays show how Rancière's ideas can be used to analyse contemporary trends in both art and politics, including the events surrounding 9/11, war in the contemporary consensual age, and the ethical turn in aesthetics and politics. Rancière elaborates new directions for the concepts of politics and communism, as well as the notion of what a 'politics of art' might be.
With a brand new introduction from the translator this is a superb collection of the work of one of the world's most influential contemporary thinkers.
Includes index.
Translator\'s introduction -- Preface -- Part I: The aesthetics of politics -- Ten theses on politics -- Does democracy mean something?. Who is the subject of the rights of man?. Communism : from actuality to inactuality -- The people or the multitudes -- Bio-politics or politics -- September 11 and afterwards : a rupture in the symbolic order -- Of war as the supreme form of advanced plutocratic consensus -- The politics of aesthetics / Part II -- The aesthetic revolution and its outcomes -- The paradoxes of political art -- The politics of literature -- The monument and its confidences or Deleuze and Art\'s capacity for resistance -- The ethical turn of aesthetics and politics -- Response to critics / Part III -- The usage of distinctions.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Editor's Introduction
- Part I The Aesthetics of Politics
- 1 Ten Theses on Politics
- 2 Does Democracy Mean Something?
- 3 Who is the Subject of the Rights of Man?
- 4 From the Actuality of Communism to its Inactuality
- 5 The People or the Multitudes: Interview with Eric Alliez
- 6 Biopolitics or Politics?: Interview with Eric Alliez
- 7 9/11 and Afterwards: A Rupture in the Symbolic Order
- 8 Of War as the Supreme Form of Advanced Plutocratic Consensus
- Part II The Politics of Aesthetics
- 9 The Aesthetic Revolution and its Outcomes: Emplotments of Autonomy and Heteronomy
- 10 The Politics of Art
- 11 The Politics of Literature
- 12 The Secrets of the Monument (Deleuze and Art's 'Resistance')
- 13 The Emancipated Spectator
- 14 The Ethical Turn of Aesthetics and Politics
- Part III Response to Critics
- 15 The Usage of Distinctions
- Author's Afterword
- Index
Author notes provided by Syndetics
Jacques Ranciere taught at the University of Paris VIII, France, from 1969 to 2000, occupying the Chair of Aesthetics and Politics from 1990 until his retirement.Steven Corcoran is the editor and translator of Alain Badiou's Polemics (Verso, 2006) and Jacques Ranciere's Hatred of Democracy (Verso, 2007).