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Ranciere
Translation of: Le temps du paysage: aux origines de la raevolution esthaetique. Paris: La Fabrique aeditions, [2020].
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Jacques Ranciere
Returning politics to its original and necessary meaning: the organization of dissent
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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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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…
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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.
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* 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…
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…
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…
Alfredo Chafunha Ramijo
An education for emancipation starts from the assumption that every human being is capable of building knowledge without a relation of domination of the one who knows over the one…
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…
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This work reveals the significant impact of historiography on the human sciences during the 20th century.
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Rethinking the role of the radical public intellectual.
Originally published: [Caen]: NOUS, 2016, under the title Le sillon du poaeme: en lisant Philippe Beck.
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…
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.
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.
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…
The foremost philosopher of art argues for a new politics of looking.
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…
Rethinking the role of the radical public intellectual
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The critique of modernist ideology from France’s leading radical theorist
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…
Jacques Ranciere (University of Paris VIII, France)
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…
Daniel Thomas Van Dijk
In the last decade or so, considerable attention has been given by educational theorists
to the works of Jacques Ranciere. Most commentators on Ranciere's educational thought,
which is based on…
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…
A collection that examines the work of cultural and political theorist Jacques Ranciere.
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…
Todd May
Focuses on Ranciere’s central political idea that a democratic politics emerges from the presupposition of equality.
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…
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…
Uma educacao para a emancipacao parte do pressuposto de que cada ser humano e capaz de construir conhecimentos sem uma relacao de dominacao de quem sabe sobre aquele que deve…
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…
A leading radical thinker reflects on the state of contemporary politics –
