The Intellectual and His People - Couverture souple

Rancière, Jacques

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1844678601 ISBN 13 : 9781844678600

Editeur : Verso Books, 2012

Synopsis

Following the previous volume of essays by Jacques Ranciere from the 1970s, Staging the People: The Proletarian and His Double, this second collection focuses on the ways in which radical philosophers understand the people they profess to speak for. The Intellectual and His People engages in an incisive and original way with current political and cultural issues, including the "discovery" of totalitarianism by the "new philosophers," the relationship of Sartre and Foucault to popular struggles, nostalgia for the ebbing world of the factory, the slippage of the artistic avant-garde into defending corporate privilege, and the ambiguous sociological critique of Pierre Bourdieu. As ever, Ranciere challenges all patterns of thought in which one-time radicalism has become empty convention.

A propos du livre

Biographie 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.

Revue de presse :

“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 few consistent conceptualizations of how we are to continue to resist.”—Slavoj i ek

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Verso Books
• Date d'édition: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1844678601
• ISBN 13: 9781844678600
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 184