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11%OFFJacques Rancière - Short Voyages to the Land of the People - 9780804736824 - V9780804736824
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Short Voyages to the Land of the People

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Description for Short Voyages to the Land of the People Paperback. This work reads a series of texts and journeys across class lines and shows how the image of "the people" functions in them as a point of reference unto which the observer projects a conceptual framework - based on the observer's own circumstances. Translator(s): Swenson, James. Series: Atopia: Philosophy, Political Theory, Aesthetics. Num Pages: 152 pages. BIC Classification: HPN; JPA; JPF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 162 x 12. Weight in Grams: 136.

This book analyzes a range of texts that seek, in different ways, to represent "the people." Rancière approaches these texts as travel narratives or ethnographies whose authors have traveled not to distant or exotic lands but across class lines. In this truly comparative study, he examines Wordsworth's poetry, the utopian discourse of the Saint-Simoniens, the correspondence and theater of Büchner, Claude Genoux's Mémoires d'un enfant de la Savoie, Michelet's theories of history, the prose and poetry of Rilke, and the performance of Ingrid Bergman in Rossellini's postwar film Europe 51.

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He argues convincingly that "the people" have no proper signification in the texts under consideration, instead, they function as points of reality upon which the voyager can drape a conceptual framework shaped by the circumstances not of the other, but of the self.

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Product Details

Publisher
Stanford University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Series
Atopia: Philosophy, Political Theory, Aesthetics
Condition
New
Weight
146g
Number of Pages
152
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804736824
SKU
V9780804736824
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About Jacques Rancière
Jacques Rancière is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris VIII. His most recent book in English is Disagreement: Politics and Philosophy.

Reviews for Short Voyages to the Land of the People
"This is an important work for a number of reasons. The depth of Ranciere's knowledge, the brilliance of his insights, and the passionate commitment with which he pursues the questions raised by the texts under consideration, all combine to make it a challenging and rewarding intellectual experience." -Karl A. Britto,University of California, Berkeley

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