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Staging the People
Jacques Ranciere
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Description for Staging the People
Paperback. Ranciere's classic essays from the 1970s, as he was developing his distinctive method. Translator(s): Fernbach, David. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: HPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 196 x 19. Weight in Grams: 272.
These essays from the 1970s mark the inception of the distinctive project that Jacques Rancière has pursued across forty years, with four interwoven themes: the study of working-class identity, of its philosophical interpretation, of "heretical" knowledge and of the relationship between work and leisure. For the short-lived journal Les Révoltes Logiques, Rancière wrote on subjects ranging across a hundred years, from the California Gold Rush to trade-union collaboration with fascism, from early feminism to the "dictatorship of the proletariat," from the respectability of the Paris Exposition to the disrespectable carousing outside the Paris gates. Rancière characteristically combines telling historical detail ... Read more
These essays from the 1970s mark the inception of the distinctive project that Jacques Rancière has pursued across forty years, with four interwoven themes: the study of working-class identity, of its philosophical interpretation, of "heretical" knowledge and of the relationship between work and leisure. For the short-lived journal Les Révoltes Logiques, Rancière wrote on subjects ranging across a hundred years, from the California Gold Rush to trade-union collaboration with fascism, from early feminism to the "dictatorship of the proletariat," from the respectability of the Paris Exposition to the disrespectable carousing outside the Paris gates. Rancière characteristically combines telling historical detail ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Verso Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781844676972
SKU
V9781844676972
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About Jacques Ranciere
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.
Reviews for Staging the People
French philosopher Jacques Rancière is a refreshing read for anyone concerned with what art has to do with politics and society.
Art Review
In the face of impossible attempts to proceed with progressive ideas within the terms of postmodernist discourse, Rancière shows a way out of the malaise.
Liam Gillick
Rancière's writings offer one of the ... Read more
Art Review
In the face of impossible attempts to proceed with progressive ideas within the terms of postmodernist discourse, Rancière shows a way out of the malaise.
Liam Gillick
Rancière's writings offer one of the ... Read more