Dissensus / Edition 1

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Overview

Dissensus comprises several of Ranciere's recent contributions to problems of art and politics. On issues such as the specificity of aesthetic experience, the politics of art, democracy and human rights, Ranciere provides novel analyses that yield nothing to the prevailing liberal consensus. Along the way, he engages in some unerring critiques of major contemporary thinkers - Giorgio Agamben, Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Derrida, Antonio Negri. Moreover, insightful essays about recent phenomena debunk notions that political insecurity today requires waging war on 'archaic' anti-democratic elements, or that the 9/11 World Trade Center attacks constitute a rupture in the symbolic order.

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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781847064455
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury
  • Publication date: 3/17/2010
  • Edition description: Translatio
  • Edition number: 1
  • Pages: 240
  • Sales rank: 998,194
  • Product dimensions: 5.10 (w) x 7.90 (h) x 1.00 (d)

Meet the Author

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).

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Table of Contents

Editor's Introduction 1

Pt. I The Aesthetics of Politics

1 Ten Theses on Politics 27

2 Does Democracy Mean Something? 45

3 Who Is the Subject of the Rights of Man? 62

4 Communism: From Actuality to Inactuality 76

5 The People or the Multitudes? 84

6 Biopolitics or Politics? 91

7 September 11 and Afterwards: A Rupture in the Symbolic Order? 97

8 Of War as the Supreme Form of Advanced Plutocratic Consensus 105

Pt. II The Politics of Aesthetics

9 The Aesthetic Revolution and Its Outcomes 115

10 The Paradoxes of Political Art 134

11 The Politics of Literature 152

12 The Monument and Its Confidences; or Deleuze and Art's Capacity of 'Resistance' 169

13 The Ethical Turn of Aesthetics and Politics 184

Pt. III Response to Critics

14 The Use of Distinctions 205

Notes 219

Index 227

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