This is a brand new collection of Jacques Ranciere's writings on art and politics. "Dissensus: On Politics and Aesthetics" brings together some of Jacques Ranciere's most recent writings on art and politics to show the critical potential of two of his most important concepts: the aesthetics of politics and the politics of aesthetics. In this fascinating collection, Ranciere engages in a radical critique of some of his major contemporaries on questions of art and politics: Gilles Deleuze, Antonio Negri, Giorgio Agamben, Alain Badiou and Jacques Derrida. The essays show how Ranciere's ideas can be used to analyse contemporary trends in both art and politics, including the events surrounding 9/11, war in the contemporary consensual age, and the ethical turn of aesthetics and politics. Ranciere elaborates new directions for the concepts of politics and communism, as well as the notion of what a 'politics of art' might be. This important collection includes several essays that have never previously been published in English, as well as a brand new afterword. Together these essays serve as a superb introduction to the work of one of the world's most influential contemporary thinkers.
| ISBN: | 9781847064455 |
| Publication date: | 17th January 2010 |
| Author: | Jacques (University of Paris VIII, France) Rancière, Steven Corcoran |
| Publisher: | Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd. an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 240 pages |
| Genres: |
Philosophy: aesthetics Social and political philosophy Western philosophy from c 1800 Political science and theory Theory of art |