Dissenting Words: Interviews with Jacques Rancière - Hardcover

Rancière, Jacques

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1623566193 ISBN 13: 9781623566197

Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic, 2017

Synopsis

Dissenting Words is a lively and engaging collection of interviews that span the length of Jacques Rancière's trajectory, from the critique of Althusserian Marxism and the work on proletarian thinking in the nineteenth century to the more recent reflections on politics and aesthetics. Across these pages, Rancière discusses the figures, concepts and arguments he has introduced to the theoretical landscape over the past forty years, the themes and concerns that have animated his thinking, the positions he has defended and the wide range of objects and discourses that have attracted his attention and through which his thought has unfolded: history, pedagogy, literature, art, cinema. But more than reflecting on the continuities, turns, ruptures and deviations in his thought, Rancière recasts his work in a different discursive register. And the pleasure we experience in reading these interviews – with their asides, displacements and reconstructions – stems from the way Rancière transforms the voice of the thinker commenting on his texts and elucidating his concepts into another, and equally rich, manifestation of his thought.

About this title

Book Description:

A wide selection of interviews with Jacques Rancière conducted between 1976 and 2012, which provides an accessible introduction to his thought.

About the Author:

Jacques Rancière taught at the University of Paris VIII, France, from 1969 to 2000, occupying the Chair of Aesthetics and Politics from 1990 until his retirement.

Emiliano Battista is the translator of Jacques Rancière's Althusser's Lesson (2011) and Film Fables (2006).

About this edition

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1623566193
• ISBN 13: 9781623566197
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 384
• Editor: Battista Emiliano