A classic text by Ranciere on the intellectual thought of French workers in the 19th century.
Rethinking the role of the radical public intellectual
This book analyzes a range of texts that seek, in different ways, to represent "the people." Ranciere approaches these texts as travel narratives or ethnographies whose authors have traveled not to distant or exotic lands but across class lines.
From Almanac of Fall (1984) to The Turin Horse (2011), renowned Hungarian filmmaker Béla Tarr has followed the collapse of the communist promise. The “time after†is the time... Læs mere
This work reveals the significant impact of historiography on the human sciences during the 20th century.
This new collection of challenging literary studies plays with a foundational definition of Western culture: the word become flesh. But the word become flesh is not, or is no longer, a theological already-given. It is a millennial goal or telos toward which each text strives.
Gives politics the following meaning: the organization of dissent.
* Jacques Ranciere is one of the leading philosophers in France today, well-known for his work on aesthetics, politics and the philosophy of literature. * This book is a... Læs mere
A work that is not concerned with the use of Freudian concepts for the interpretation of literary and artistic works. Rather, it is concerned with why this interpretation plays such an important role in demonstrating the contemporary relevance of psychoanalytic concepts.
Translation of: Les bords de la fiction.
An essential analysis of cinema from one of the great figures of French philosophy.