- Hardcover: 112 pages
- Publisher: Verso Books (25 July 1995)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0860914674
- ISBN-13: 978-0860914679
- Product Dimensions: 21.6 x 14 x 1.5 cm
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It is frequently said that we are living through the end of politics, the end of social upheavals, the end of utopian folly. Consensual realism is the order of the day. But political realists, remarks Jacques Ranciere, are always several steps behind reality, and the only thing which may come to an end with their dominance is democracy. "We could", he suggests, "merely smile at the alacrity with which political administrators look forward to the time when politics will be over and they can at last get on with political business undistubed. But it might be more interesting to take a close look at the duplicity of the conculsion/suppression of politics which is simultaneously a suppression/conclusion of philosophy." This is precisely the task which Ranciere undertakes in these essays. He argues that since Plato and Aristotle politics has always constructed itself as the art of ending politics, that realism is itself utopian, and that what has succeeded the polemical forms of class struggle is not the wisdom of a new millennium, but the return of old fears, criminality and chaos. Whether he is discussing the confrontation between Mitterrand and Chirac, French working-class discourse after the 1830 revolution, or the ideology of recent student mobilizations, his aim is to restore philosophy to politics and give politics back its original and necessary meaning: the organization of dissent. Jacques Ranciere is the author of "La Nuit des Proletaires", "Courts Voyages au Pays du Peuple", "Le Maitre Ignorant" and "Les Noms de l'Histoire".
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Great Introduction to the Thinking of Rancière
15 April 2010
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This book is a great introduction to the political thinking of Jacques Rancière. Rancière posits that any sort of political act originates with the presupposition of equality. Equality is not given nor is it the end goal of the state. Equality itself underlies all political action. Within this is the idea that political action, the assertion of one's equality through action is needed when words and actions do not meet.
I recommend especially, Chapter 2 of this work as a great introduction to the thinking of Rancière.
I recommend especially, Chapter 2 of this work as a great introduction to the thinking of Rancière.
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