Chronicles of consensual times / Jacques Rancière, translated by Steven Corcoran.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rancière, Jacques, author.

Contributor:

Corcoran, Steve, translator.

Standardized Title:

Chroniques des temps consensuels. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Consensus (Social sciences).

Legitimacy of governments.

Political science--Philosophy.

Political science.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (167 pages.)

Place of Publication:

London, England ; New York, New York : Continuum, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In this fascinating collection, Jacques Ranciere, one of the world's most important and influential living philosophers, explores the nature of consensus in contemporary politics. Consensus does not mean peace. Instead it refers to a map of operations of war, of a topography of the visible, of what is possible and what can be thought, in which war and peace live side-by-side. Lying at the heart of these consensual times are new forms of racism and ethnic cleansing, humanitarian wars and wars against terror. Consensus also implies using time in a way that sees in it a thousand devious turns. This is evident in the incessant diagnoses of the present and of amnesiac politics, in the farewells to the past, the commemorations, and the calls to remember. But all these twists and turns tend toward the same goal: to show that there is only one reality to which we are obliged to consent. What stands in the way of this undertaking is politics. These chronicles aim to re-open that space wherein politics once more becomes thinkable.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Preface

1 The Head and the Stomach, January 1996

2 Borges in Sarajevo, March 1996

3 Fin de Siècle and New Millennium, May 1996

4 Cold Racism, July 1996

5 The Last Enemy, November 1996

6 The Grounded Plane, January 1997

7 Dialectic in the Dialectic, August 1997

8 Voyage to the Country of the Last Sociologists, November 1997

9 Justice in the Past, April 1998

10 The Crisis of Art or a Crisis of Thought? July 1998

11 Is Cinema to Blame? March 1999

12 The Nameless War, May 1999

13 One Image Right Can Sweep Away Another, October 1999

14 The Syllogism of Corruption, October 2000

15 Voici/Voilà: The Destiny of Images, January 2001

16 From Facts to Interpretations: The New Quarrel over the Holocaust, April 2001

17 From One Torture to Another, June 2001

18 The Filmmaker, the People and the Government, August 2001

19 Time, Words, War, November 2001

20 Philosophy in the Bathroom, January 2002

21 Prisoners of the Infinite, March 2002

22 From One Month of May to Another, June 2002

23 Victor Hugo: The Ambiguities of a Bicentenary, August 2002

24 The Machine and the Foetus, January 2003

25 The Death of the Author or the Life of the Artist? April 2003

26 The Logic of Amnesia, June 2003

27 The Insecurity Principle, September 2003

28 The New Fictions of Evil, November 2003

29 Criminal Democracy? March 2004

30 The Difficult Legacy of Michel Foucult, June 2004

31 The New Reasons for the Lie, August 2004

32 Beyond Art? October 2004

33 The Politics of Images, February 2005

34 Democracy and Its Doctors, May 2005

Notes

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-282-87349-0

9786612873492

1-4411-2201-X

OCLC:

676698812