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Dissensus: On Politics and Aesthetics Hardcover – March 17, 2010

by Jacques Rancière (Author), Steven Corcoran (Translator)

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Dissensus: On Politics and Aesthetics brings together some of Jacques Rancière's key 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 illuminating collection, Rancière 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 Rancière'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 in aesthetics and politics. Rancière elaborates new directions for the concepts of politics and communism, as well as the notion of what a 'politics of art' might be.

With a brand new introduction from the translator this is a superb collection of the work of one of the world's most influential contemporary thinkers.

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Title mention in Times Higher Education, January 2010

Rewarding in its scholarly engagemenet with Derrida, Arendt, Lyotard et al ... [Rancière] has a certain sardonic precision.

(The Guardian)

"Steven Corcoran has provided a timely and coherently organized collection of RanciÃ¨re's short writings, one that can stand as a solid introduction to the author's thought...There is a distinct shift of emphasis that occurs in RanciÃ¨re's writings around the late 1990's, however, and the task of a good collection would be to capture both periods and the thematic interaction between them. The writings gathered here, which date from 1996 to 2004, perform both tasks admirably...For those who seek to get a sense of both the richness and the breadth of the work of one of the most significant thinkers of our time, Dissensus provides a valuable resource. I can think of no better starting point than this collection."
-Todd May, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

An accessible introduction to Rancière's thought and an essential collection of his essays.

(Marx & Philosophy Review of Books)

Rewarding in its scholarly engagemenet with Derrida, Arendt, Lyotard et al … [Rancière] has a certain sardonic precision.

(Sanford Lakoff)

An accessible introduction to Rancière's thought and an essential collection of his essays.

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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.

Steven Corcoran is a writer and translator living in Berlin. He has edited and/or translated several works by Jacques Rancière, including Dissensus (Continuum, 2010), and two works by Alain Badiou, Polemics (Verso, 2006) and Conditions (Continuum, 2008).

Hardcover: 240 pages
Publisher: Continuum; Translation edition (March 17, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1847064450
ISBN-13: 978-1847064455
Product Dimensions: 5.3 x 1 x 8.1 inches
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Some relevant observations among a muck of langague

December 17, 2017

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What to make of Ranciere? He falls in a long line of extremely abstract French thought. On a very general level, he provides some interesting insights in conceptualizing the concept of the police as a sort of regimented array of the sensible that extends the concept into a very broad term. His critique of political art, which doesn't necessarily lead to action and can often descend into a parody of critique , is in part insightful. Perhaps his most relevant observation is the way in which the aesthetic plays into his notion of the political, which creates a dissensus between different symbolic orders. He also makes a good point of how political resistance and aesthetic resistance must remain on different registers altogether.

On a another level, much of what he writes strikes one as using grandiose verbiage in making some fairly obvious points. Ultimately, Ranciere is indebted to the modernist tradition, which his own wordy writing ascends to but never reaches. He prioritizes non-mimetic art in problematic ways, has rather formalistic notions of how art operates--divested from context, holds a penchant for the counter-intuitive over the obvious. In other words, his concepts loftily escape the orbit of reality often-- not that this makes them irrelevant. But if you want any use from Ranciere, it requires re-tethering his concepts with the actual practices how how art and politics actually functions.

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amalya tumanian

Best of luck in the New year

December 19, 2016

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Thank you. Best of luck in the New year!

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Excellent book, very careful translation

June 27, 2013

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Great book, a must-read for anyone interested in contemporary philosophy and politics. The translation manages to render the subtleties of Ranciere's original philosophical language.

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I see a break with the axiom of domination

March 4, 2014

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Democracy is merely a habit of letting voters throw the bums out or a form of submission to fall into all alike hellfire in a world that turns those who lost the battle for heaven into the demons sharing a lake of fire. Money that fails to exist does not talk, it swears.

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January 29, 2013

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I already received and this product is very good. I suggest for all people interest in Brecht and politics arts and philosophy

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