Understanding Rancière, Understanding Modernism (Understanding Philosophy, Understanding Modernism) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1501311387 ISBN 13: 9781501311383

Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic, 2017

Synopsis

The contemporary philosopher Jacques Rancière has become over the last two decades one of the most influential voices in philosophy, political theory, and literary, art historical, and film criticism. His work reexamines the divisions that have defined our understanding of modernity, such as art and politics, representation and abstraction, and literature and philosophy. Working across these divisions, he engages the historical roots of modernism at the end of the eighteenth century, uncovering forgotten texts in the archive that trouble our notions of intellectual history. The contributors to Understanding Rancière, Understanding Modernism engage with the multiplicity of Rancière’s thought through close readings of his texts, through comparative readings with other philosophers, and through an engagement with modernist works of art and literature. The final section of the volume includes an extended glossary of the most important terms used by Rancière, which will be a valuable resource for experts and students alike.

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About the Author

Patrick M. Bray is Associate Professor of French at the Ohio State University, USA. He has published on critical theory, space in literature, as well as film. He is the co-editor of a volume of L’Esprit Créateur called “Building the Louvre: Architectures of Politics and Art” and author of The Novel Map: Space and Subjectivity in Nineteenth-Century French Fiction (2013).

Edition details

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1501311387
• ISBN 13: 9781501311383
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 312
• Editor: Bray Patrick M.