The Politics of Aesthetics
Author(s): Jacques Ranciere
"The Politics of Aesthetics" rethinks the relation between art and politics, reclaiming "aesthetics" from its current narrow confines to reveal its significance for contemporary experience. Here, Jacques Ranciere develops a critical aesthetic that goes far beyond the paradigms of modernism and modernity and their 'posts' which still haunt us. Presented as a set of inter-linked interviews, "The Politics of Aesthetics" ranges across art and politics, the uses and abuses of modernity, the role of visual technologies, the relationship between history and fiction, utopias, the avant-garde and the three aesthetic regimes, which constitute the 'partitions of the sensible.' Already translated into five languages, this English edition of "The Politics of Aesthetics" includes a new afterword by Slavoj Zizek and a new interview with Ranciere in which he situates his writing within the context of the work of, amongst others, Foucault, Barthes, Ricoeur, Kristeva, Derrida, Badiou, Balibar and Zizek.
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Jacques Ranciere is Professor of Aesthetics at the University of Paris VIII (St Denis) and a former student of Louis Althusser. His translated works include The Nights of Labour, The Ignorant Schoolmaster, The Names of History and Disagreement.
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; A New 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.
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- : Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
- : Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
- : 0.145
- : 18 May 2006
- : 190mm X 136mm X 11mm
- : United Kingdom
- : books
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- : Jacques Ranciere
- : Paperback
- : 111.85
- : 128
- : Aesthetics
