The Political Thought of Jacques Rancière: Creating Equality - Hardcover

May, Todd

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0748635327 ISBN 13: 9780748635320

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press, 2008

Synopsis

This is the first single-authored book in any language devoted entirely to the thought of Jacques Rancière. It focuses on his central political idea that a democratic politics emerges from the presupposition of equality. Todd May examines and extends this presupposition, offering a framework for understanding it, placing it in the current political context, and showing how it challenges traditional political philosophy and opens up neglected political paths.May aims to show that Rancière's view offers both hope and perspective for those who seek to think about and engage in progressive political action.

About this title

About the Author:

Todd May is Class of 1941 Memorial Professor of the Humanities at the Clemson University

Review:

Equality is not something that we must expect from state institutions. It is something that we must both presuppose and create through collective action. Todd May investigates in depth the philosophical grounds ethical implications and practical consequences of the view of active equality. Much more than a commentary, his book is a powerful analysis of what politics means and how we can recover the project of political action. -- Jacques Ranciere Equality is not something that we must expect from state institutions. It is something that we must both presuppose and create through collective action. Todd May investigates in depth the philosophical grounds ethical implications and practical consequences of the view of active equality. Much more than a commentary, his book is a powerful analysis of what politics means and how we can recover the project of political action.

About this edition

• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0748635327
• ISBN 13: 9780748635320
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 208