Equality and Freedom in Rancière and Foucault
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Equality and Freedom in Rancière and Foucault
Exploring a synergy between Foucault's work on freedom and Ranciere's work on equality, providing a new and explicitly real-world form of emancipatory political practice.
Exploring a synergy between Foucault’s work on freedom and Ranciere’s work on equality, providing a new and explicitly real-world form of emancipatory political practice.
Equality and Freedom in Rancière and Foucault by Dr Stuart Blaney responds to the increasing need for new and peaceful forms of emancipation. Blaney offers a unique solution in the synergy between two pioneering strands of continental philosophy: Michael Foucault’s ideas on freedom and Jacques Rancière’s ideas on equality.
Building a dialogue between these two thinkers, Blaney presents new perspectives on their work, offering a clear picture that emancipation comes from everyday practices rather than any particular movement or revolution.
In exploring these combined views of equality and freedom, Blaney draws on some of the central facets of both concepts, including revolution, disagreement, care for the self, free speech, and stoicism. To put these ideas into a practical framework of real, lived experience, we are introduced to the figure of Louis-Gabriel Gauny, the 19th-century worker-poet and self-confessed plebeian philosopher.
Gauny serves as a nexus for Rancière’s and Foucault’s ideas; his life exemplifies a dual mode of existence, navigating between conformity and political revolution. This lived philosophy of equality and freedom illustrates the strong synergy between the two concepts, with one reinforcing the other and strengthening their efficacy as forms of emancipatory practice.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781350498914
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 25 June 2026
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
Audience: Professional and scholarly
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 16.0mm
Width: 152.0mm
Height: 232.0mm
Weight: 380g
Pages: 264
About the Author
Stuart Blaney is an independent scholar specialising in Jacques Rancière, political philosophy and aesthetics.
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