Jacques Ranciere (France University of Paris VIII)

Dissensus

On Politics and Aesthetics
Übersetzer: Corcoran, Steven

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Produktbeschreibung

A collection of essays on art and politics. It shows how the author'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 of aesthetics and politics.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. März 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 207mm x 139mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 366g
• ISBN-13: 9781847064455
• ISBN-10: 1847064450
• Artikelnr.: 26446005

Autorenporträt

Jacques Rancière 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 a writer and translator living in Berlin. He has edited and/or translated several works by Jacques Rancière, including Dissensus (Continuum, 2010), and two works by Alain Badiou, Polemics (Verso, 2006) and Conditions (Continuum, 2008).

Inhaltsangabe

Translator's Introduction \ Preface \ 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. Communism: From Actuality to
Inactuality \ 5. The People or the Multitudes? \ 6. Biopolitics or
Politics? \ 7. September 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 \ 10. The Paradoxes of Political Art \ 11. The Politics of
Literature \ 12. The Monument and its Confidences, or Deleuze and Art's
Capacity for 'Resistance' \ 13. The Ethical Turn of Aesthetics and Politics
\ Part III: Response to Critics \ 14. The Usage of Distinctions \ Index.

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AcknowledgementsEditor'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. Communism: From Actuality to Inactuality 5. The People or the Multitudes? 6. Biopolitics or Politics? 7. September 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 10. The Paradoxes of Political Art 11. The Politics of Literature 12. The Monument and its Confidences; or Deleuze and Art's Capacity of 'Resistance'13. The Ethical Turn of Aesthetics and Politics Part III: Response to Critics 14. The Use of Distinctions NotesIndex

Rezensionen

Rewarding in its scholarly engagement with Derrida, Arendt, Lyotard et al ... [Rancière] has a certain sardonic precision. The Guardian