Distributions of the sensible : Rancière, between aesthetics and politics / edited by Scott Durham and Dilip Gaonkar ; with an afterword by Jacques Ranciere.

Format:

Datafile

Contributor:

Rancière, Jacques, writer of afterword.

Gaonkar, Dilip Parameshwar, 1945- editor.

Durham, Scott, 1960- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rancière, Jacques--Aesthetics.

Rancière, Jacques.

Rancière, Jacques--Political and social views.

Equality--Philosophy.

Equality.

Political science--Philosophy.

Political science.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (265 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, [2019]

Summary:

Jacques Rancière's work is increasingly central to several debates across the humanities.Distributions of the Sensible confronts a question at the heart of his thought: How should we conceive the relationship between the "politics of aesthetics" and the "aesthetics of politics"?.

Contents:

A preface to Ranciere / Dilip Gaonkar

Introduction: between two equalities / Scott Durham

Jacques Ranciere's politics of the ordinary / Jason Frank

Fidelity to disagreement: Jacques Ranciere's politics without ontology / Benjamin Arditi

Which politics of aesthetics? / Joseph J. Tanke

"Equality must be defended!": Cinephilia and democracy / Codruta Morari

The aesthetics of displacement: dissonance and dissensus in Adorno and Ranciere / Sudeep Dasgupta

The politics of the aesthetics of theory / Nico Baumbach

Who's the subject of politics? Language in Jacques Ranciere / Giuseppina Mecchia

Emergence: dissensus in a global field of instrumentality / Pheng Cheah

"Plunge into terrible readings": Ranciere, Badiou, and the thought of libidinal economy / Eleanor Kaufman

All affects equal / Tom Conley

Afterword: Rethinking theory and practice / Jacques Ranciere.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-8101-4029-2

OCLC:

1104856672