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The Politics of Aesthetics

By Jacques Rancière
Series: Bloomsbury Revelations
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The Politics of Aesthetics rethinks the relationship between art and politics, revealing their intrinsic link through the delimitation of the visible and invisible, audible and inaudible, and the possible and impossible. Presented as inter-linked interviews, it offers a comprehensive introduction to Jacques Rancière's thought, ranging from the Greek polis to modern aesthetic revolutions. This edition includes an afterword by Slavoj Žižek, a glossary, and an extensive bibliography.
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The Politics of Aesthetics rethinks the relationship between art and politics, reclaiming "aesthetics" from the narrow confines it is often reduced to. Jacques Rancière reveals its intrinsic link to politics by analysing what they both have in common: the delimitation of the visible and the invisible, the audible and the inaudible, the thinkable and the unthinkable, the possible and the impossible.

Presented as a set of inter-linked interviews, The Politics of Aesthetics provides the most comprehensive introduction to Rancière's work to date, ranging across the history of art and politics from the Greek polis to the aesthetic revolution of the modern age.

Available now in the Bloomsbury Revelations series 10 years after its original publication, The Politics of Aesthetics includes an afterword by Slavoj Zizek, an interview for the English edition, a glossary of technical terms and an extensive bibliography.

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"Jacques Rancière is one of the most important and original contemporary French philosophers. This book provides perhaps the best available introduction to his thought in English... illuminating to see aesthetics as political and politics in aesthetic terms." – Culture Machine
"An excellent introduction to Jacques Rancière... his writings offer one of the few consistent conceptualisations of how we are to continue to exist." – London Review of Books
Rancière offers insightful and novel perspectives on modernity in relation to art. – Modern Painters

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781780935355

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 25 April 2013

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic

Contributors:

  • Edited by Gabriel Rockhill
  • Translated by Gabriel Rockhill

Audience: Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 12.0mm

Width: 136.0mm

Height: 214.0mm

Weight: 188g

Pages: 144

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Arts & Culture Education & Reference Jacques Rancière Non-Fiction Philosophy & Psychology Philosophy & Stoicism Politics & Current Affairs Series: Bloomsbury Revelations

About the Author

Jacques Rancière taught at the University of Paris VIII, France, from 1969 to 2000, occupying the Chair of Aesthetics and Politics from 1990 until his retirement.




Gabriel Rockhill is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Villanova University, USA. He also teaches at the Centre Parisien d'Etudes Critiques and the Collège International de Philosophie, France. He is the author of Logique de l'histoire: Pour une analytique des pratiques philosophiques (Editions Hermann, 2010) and Pour un historicisme radical: Entre esthétique et politique avec Rancière (Editions du Sandre, forthcoming).

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