Dissenting Words: Interviews with Jacques Rancière - Hardcover

Jacques Rancière

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1623566193 ISBN 13: 9781623566197

Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic, 2017

Synopsis

This lively and thought-provoking collection of interviews with Jacques Rancière provides the reader with an incisive overview of his philosophical project, from its beginnings during the Red Years in France to its most recent formulations. It supplements Rancière's scholarly and theoretical works with his reflections on the continuities, turns, ruptures and deviations in his thought. In a conversational style replete with informative asides into current events Dissenting Words draws upon examples ranging from the history of the workers' struggle to literature, cinema and the arts - all of which we have learned to associate with Rancière.

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Review:

Jacques Rancière has spent a career crossing disciplinary boundaries. In this collection of interviews he reflects on the interplay between cinema, politics, literature, history, and education in his work. These interviews are an excellent introduction to his thought; they will also offer new insights to those already familiar with his work. --Todd May, Professor of Philosophy, Clemson University, USA

Much of this material here is available in English for the first time. This is thus a crucial book, full of fascinating insights into Ranciere's thought, and expertly edited and introduced. --Nick Hewlett, Professor of French Studies, University of Warwick, UK.

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1623566193
• ISBN 13: 9781623566197
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 352
• Editor: Emiliano Battista