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The Politics of Aesthetics
Jacques Rancière
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Description for The Politics of Aesthetics
Paperback. Editor(s): Rockhill, Gabriel. Translator(s): Rockhill, Gabriel. Series: Bloomsbury Revelations. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: ABA; HPN; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 139 x 9. Weight in Grams: 210.
The Politics of Aesthetics rethinks the relationship between art and politics, reclaiming aesthetics from the narrow confines it is often reduced to. Jacques Ranciere reveals its intrinsic link to politics by analysing what they both have in common: the delimitation of the visible and the invisible, the audible and the inaudible, the thinkable and the unthinkable, the possible and the impossible. Presented as a set of inter-linked interviews, The Politics of Aesthetics provides the most comprehensive introduction to Ranciere's work to date, ranging across the history of art and politics from the Greek polis to the aesthetic revolution ... Read more
The Politics of Aesthetics rethinks the relationship between art and politics, reclaiming aesthetics from the narrow confines it is often reduced to. Jacques Ranciere reveals its intrinsic link to politics by analysing what they both have in common: the delimitation of the visible and the invisible, the audible and the inaudible, the thinkable and the unthinkable, the possible and the impossible. Presented as a set of inter-linked interviews, The Politics of Aesthetics provides the most comprehensive introduction to Ranciere's work to date, ranging across the history of art and politics from the Greek polis to the aesthetic revolution ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
144
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Series
Bloomsbury Revelations
Condition
New
Number of Pages
144
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781780935355
SKU
V9781780935355
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About Jacques Rancière
Jacques Ranciere taught at the University of Paris VIII, France, from 1969 to 2000, occupying the Chair of Aesthetics and Politics from 1990 until his retirement. Gabriel Rockhill is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Villanova University, USA. He also teaches at the Centre Parisien d'Etudes Critiques and the College International ... Read more
Reviews for The Politics of Aesthetics
Jacques Ranciere is one of the most important and original contemporary French philosophers. This book provides perhaps the best available introduction to his thought in English. Its main contents are two interviews with Ranciere...they provide an extraordinarily concise and systematic summary by Ranciere of the main themes of his recent work across its whole range. Ranciere's project is promising. It ... Read more