Jacques Rancière : an introduction / Joseph J. Tanke.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tanke, Joseph J.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rancière, Jacques.

Physical Description:

ix, 189 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Continuum, [2011]

Summary:

In writing this introduction to French political theorist, Jacques Ranciere, Tanke (aesthetics and philosophy, California College of the Arts) offers an egalitarian "reading" rather than a series of pedantic commentaries. Tanke attends to Ranciere's break with Louis Althusser and critique of structuralism; counting as political act; politics of aesthetics and three regimes of art; the potential and failure of cinema in stimulating political thinking, provoking political action and reflecting political economy; and the importance of egalitarianism and imagination (in a Kantian sense). The five chapters, each with an introduction and conclusion, are organized into thematized sub-sections such as "Equality in Art" and "Cinema and Its Century: Godard and the Abuse of Hitchcock." Central to this introduction is what Ranciere's calls "the distribution of the sensible," which concerns how the divisions and partitions of the literally sensible world include and/or exclude seeing certain bodies, hearing particular voices, or imagining systemic problems and their solutions. This concern cross-fertilizes Ranciere's investigations into art, aesthetics in its pre-romantic sense, policing, political action and pedagogy. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781441167705

1441167706

9781441152084

1441152083

OCLC:

657602795