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This is the first English translation of Jacques Ranciere's first book, in which he explores and begins to move beyond the thought of his mentor, Louis Althusser. "Althusser's Lesson" represents the foundations of Jacques Ranciere's theoretical project. It marks the moment at which he emerges from the tutelage of his mentor, Louis Althusser, and begins to outline the themes he will go on to develop in his later writings. Here Ranciere is already working out a non-economic and non-Marxist understanding of politics. The events of May 1968 confronted Althusser's version of a Marxism of order with one of subversion that in one fell swoop rendered Althusser's thought outdated. Yet, when Althusser finally broke his silence on this issue, with the publication in 1973 of "A Response to John Lewis", he appeared simply to return to the ideas he had espoused and defended before 1968. "Althusser's Lesson" is, in Ranciere's own words, 'intended to be a commentary on a lesson: the lesson in Marxism that Louis Althusser gave John Lewis. It is intended as a reflection on what this lesson wants to teach us and what it in fact teaches us, not about Marxist theory itself, but about the present reality of Marxism'.
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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.
Emiliano Battista is the translator of Jacques Rancière's Althusser's Lesson (Continuum, 2011) and Film Fables (Berg, 2006).
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Hardcover. Condition: New. Jacques Rancière?s first major work, Althusser?s Lesson appeared in 1974, just as the energies of May 68 were losing ground to the calls for a return to order. Rancière?s analysis of Althusserian Marxism unfolds against this background: what is the relationship between the return to order and the enthusiasm which greeted the publication of Althusser?s Reply to John Lewis in 1973? How to explain the rehabilitation of a philosophy that had been declared ?dead and buried on the barricades of May 68?? What had changed? The answer to this question takes the form of a genealogy of Althusserianism that is, simultaneously, an account of the emergence of militant student movements in the ?60s, of the arrival of Maoism in France, and of how May 68 rearranged all the pieces anew. Encompassing the book?s distinctive combination of theoretical analysis and historical description is a question that has guided Rancière?s thought ever since: how do theories of subversion become the rationale for order? >. Seller Inventory # 91721