The Method of Equality: Interviews with Laurent Jeanpierre and Dork Zabunyan
Jacques Ranciere
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Hardcover. Num Pages: 300 pages. BIC Classification: HPN; HPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
The development of Rancière’s philosophical work, from his formative years through the political and methodological break with Louis Althusser and the lessons of May 68, is documented here, as are the confrontations with other thinkers, the controversies and occasional misunderstandings. So too are the unity of his work and the distinctive style of his thinking, despite the frequent disconnect between politics and aesthetics and the subterranean movement between categories and works. Lastly one sees his view of our age, and of our age’s many different and competing realities. What we gain in the end is a rich and multi-layered portrait ... Read more
The development of Rancière’s philosophical work, from his formative years through the political and methodological break with Louis Althusser and the lessons of May 68, is documented here, as are the confrontations with other thinkers, the controversies and occasional misunderstandings. So too are the unity of his work and the distinctive style of his thinking, despite the frequent disconnect between politics and aesthetics and the subterranean movement between categories and works. Lastly one sees his view of our age, and of our age’s many different and competing realities. What we gain in the end is a rich and multi-layered portrait ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Polity
Condition
New
Number of Pages
300
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780745680620
SKU
V9780745680620
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99-1
About Jacques Ranciere
Jacques Rancière is a leading French philosopher and Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Paris-St. Denis. His many books include The Politics of Literature, Aesthetics and Its Discontents and The Future of the Image.
Reviews for The Method of Equality: Interviews with Laurent Jeanpierre and Dork Zabunyan
Words matter to Rancière. In these interviews, against the background of informed and beautifully crafted questions, Rancière works through and articulates, forms and re-forms, the words that contour his thought and provide it with its depth and power: equality, speech, subjectivization, stupidity, contradiction, possibility, event, scene, police, aesthetic regime, and on and on. The Method of Equality is, in reality, ... Read more