On the Shores of Politics - Couverture souple

Rancière, Jacques

 
9780860916376: On the Shores of Politics
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0860916375 ISBN 13 : 9780860916376
Editeur : Verso Books, 1995

Synopsis

It is frequently said that we are living through the end of politics, the end of social upheavals, the end of utopian folly. Consensual realism is the order of the day. But political realists, remarks Jacques Ranciere, are always several steps behind reality, and the only thing which may come to an end with their dominance is democracy. 'We could', he suggests, 'merely smile at the duplicity of the conclusion/suppression of politics which is simultaneously a suppression/conclusion of philosophy.'
This is precisely the task which Ranciere undertakes in these subtle and perceptive essays. He argues persuasively that since Plato and Aristotle politics has always constructed itself as the art of ending politics, that realism is itself utopian, and that what has succeeded the polemical forms of class struggle is not the wisdom of a new millennium but the return of old fears, criminality and chaos. Whether he is discussing the confrontation between Mitterrand and Chirac, French working-class discourse after the 1830 revolution, or the ideology of recent student mobilizations, his aim is to restore philosophy to politics and give politics back its original and necessary meaning: the organization of dissent.

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À propos de l?auteur

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.

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Éditeur
Verso Books
Date d'édition
1995
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0860916375
ISBN 13 
9780860916376
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Nombre de pages
108
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ISBN 10 :  1844675777 ISBN 13 :  9781844675777
Editeur : Verso, 2007
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