Synopses & Reviews
This book forms the first criticalstudy of Jacques Rancière's impact and contribution to contemporary theoreticaland interdisciplinary studies. It showcases the work of leading scholars infields such as political theory, history and aesthetic theory; each of whom areuniquely situated to engage with the novelty of Rancière's thinking withintheir respective fields. Each of the essays provides aninvestigation into the critical stance Rancière takes towards hiscontemporaries, concentrating on the versatile application of his thought todiverse fields of study (including, political and education theory, cinemastudies, literary and aesthetic theory, and historical studies). The aim ofthis collection is to use the critical interventions Rancière's writing makeson current topics and themes as a way of offering new critical perspectives onhis thought. Wielding their individual expertise, each contributor assesses hisperspectives and positions on thinkers and topics of contemporary importance.The edition includes a new essay by Jacques Rancière, which charts thedifferent problems and motivations that have shaped his work.
Synopsis
This book forms the first criticalstudy of Jacques Rancière's impact and contribution to contemporary theoreticaland interdisciplinary studies. It showcases the work of leading scholars infields such as political theory, history and aesthetic theory; each of whom areuniquely situated to engage with the novelty of Rancière's thinking withintheir respective fields. Each of the essays provides aninvestigation into the critical stance Rancière takes towards hiscontemporaries, concentrating on the versatile application of his thought todiverse fields of study (including, political and education theory, cinemastudies, literary and aesthetic theory, and historical studies). The aim ofthis collection is to use the critical interventions Rancière's writing makeson current topics and themes as a way of offering new critical perspectives onhis thought. Wielding their individual expertise, each contributor assesses hisperspectives and positions on thinkers and topics of contemporary importance.The edition includes a new essay by Jacques Rancière, which charts thedifferent problems and motivations that have shaped his work.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements \ Contributor Notes \ 1. JacquesRancière and the Contemporary Scene: The Evidence of Equality and the Practiceof Writing
Jean-Philippe Deranty and Alison Ross \ 2. Movies as the GreatDemocratic Art Form of the Modern World (Notes on Rancière)
JM Bernstein \ 3. ‘Godardand Rancière: Automatism, Montage, Thinking'
Lisa Trahair \ 4. The Names inHistory: Rancière's New Historical Poetics
Dmitri Nikulin \ 5. Equality in the Romantic Art Form: TheHegelian Background to Jacques Rancière's ‘Aesthetic Revolution'
Alison Ross \ 6.No time or place for universal teaching:The Ignorant Schoolmaster and contemporary work on pedagogy
Caroline Pelletier\ 7. Rancière and Anarchism
Todd May \ 8. Rancière's utopian politics
PaulPatton \ 9. Hannah Arendt and the Philosophical Repression of Politics
AndrewSchaap \10. The Many Marx of JacquesRancière
Emmanuel Renault \ 11. Work in the writings of Jacques Rancière
Jean-PhilippeDeranty \ 12. Work, identity, subject
Jacques Rancière \ Bibliography\ Index