Everything is in Everything: Jacques Rancière between Intellectual Emancipation and Aesthetic Education (English)

Edited by Jason E. Smith and Annette Weisser. Texts by Arne de Boever, Claire Fontaine, Peter Friedl, Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe, Jacques Rancière, Jason E. Smith, Jan Voelker, Annette Weisser, Evan Calder Williams.

ISBN 10: 3037642653 / ISBN 13: 9783037642658

Published by JRP Ringier / Art Center Graduate Press, 2012

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Z : 14 x 23 cm, 144 pages, 19 b/w illustrations - For Jacques Rancière, politics is not primarily the exercise of or struggle for power, but the institution of a certain type of space and time, a mode of visibility and intelligibility that creates a tear in the consensual fabric of a given form of collective life. Art institutes just such a space and time, in which the fundamental polarities of experience activity and passivity, form and matter, appearance and reality are suspended and transformed. The essays collected in this volume, based on a symposium held at Art Center College of Design (Pasadena), consider the knot formed in Rancière's work between aesthetics, politics, and education. From his earliest work ("The Lesson of Althusser," 1974) to his magisterial book on the pedagogical theory of Joseph Jacotot ("The Ignorant Schoolmaster," 1981), the theme of education has been at the center of Rancière's concerns; his apparently recent turn to aesthetics, after the 1995 publication of "The Disagreement," should in turn be understood as a continuation of his studies of the aesthetic experiments conducted during the post-work nights of 19th-century proletarians ("The Nights of Labor," 1981).

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Everything is in Everything: Jacques Rancière between Intellectual Emancipation and Aesthetic Education (English)
• Publisher: JRP Ringier / Art Center Graduate Press
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3037642653
• ISBN 13: 9783037642658
• Binding: Softcover
• Edition: 1. Auflage
• Condition: Sehr gut
• Seller catalogs:
  • art theory
  • Philosophie

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Synopsis

Jacques Rancière (born 1940) is one of the few living French philosophers to have established a significant dialogue with contemporary art. Rancière unites a politicized perspective on art’s ability to rupture everyday life with his influential theorizations of education (The Ignorant Schoolmaster) and politics (The Nights of Labor). His profile has ascended dramatically in the U.S. over the past decade, and this volume considers the continuity of his work across aesthetics, politics and education. With essays by Evan Calder Williams, Arne de Boever, Claire Fontaine, Peter Friedl, Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe, Maria Muhle, Frank Ruda, Jason E. Smith, Jan Voelker and Rancière himself, this volume asks the question: how might a new model of aesthetic education transform our concepts of art, politics and pedagogy?