Proletarian Nights: The Workers' Dream in Nineteenth-Century France - Softcover

Ranciere, Jacques

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1844677788 ISBN 13: 9781844677788

Publisher: Verso Books, 2012

Synopsis

Proletarian Nights, previously published in English as Nights of Labor and one of Rancière's most important works, dramatically reinterprets the Revolution of 1830, contending that workers were not rebelling against specific hardships and conditions but against the unyielding predetermination of their lives. Through a study of worker-run newspapers, letters, journals, and worker-poetry, Rancière reveals the contradictory and conflicting stories that challenge the coherence of these statements celebrating labor.
This updated edition includes a new preface by the author, revisiting the work twenty years since its first publication in France.

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About the Authors

Jacques Rancière is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris-VIII. His books include The Politics of Aesthetics, On the Shores of Politics, Short Voyages to the Land of the People, The Nights of Labor, Staging the People, and The Emancipated Spectator.

Donald Reid is a professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His work focuses on French labour history and the history of collective memory in modern France.

Edition details

• Publisher: Verso Books
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1844677788
• ISBN 13: 9781844677788
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 478