Jacques Ranciere 
Rethinking Emancipation [EPUB ebook] 
Conversations with Aliocha Wald Lasowski

Faced with growing inequalities and new forms of domination and exploitation, can the movement of emancipation take on a new life today, or has it been arrested by the powers of repression and normalization?



In order to address this question, Jacques Rancière pays close attention to the sociopolitical rhythms of our time, listening for the figures of trembling and oscillation that are often drowned out by the deafening hubbub of the media. He questions the relationship between democracies and the very concept of democracy, and questions what, in the social movements and protests taking place today, offers a possibility of emancipation. Emancipation means breaking out of the established hierarchies, proposing a ludic attitude of free-floating distance and bringing into it a space of equality to replace the dominant order of inequalities.



In five conversations on politics, art, literature, philosophy and cinema, Jacques Rancière and Aliocha Wald Lasowski consider the form, experience and collectives which characterise emancipation. In so doing, they imagine the world of tomorrow and the radical utopias that will bring it closer to us.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword by Aliocha Wald Lasowski


Chapter 1. Politics: The democratic paradox

Chapter 2. Aesthetics: Aesthetic democracy and social emancipation

Chapter 3. Literature: the politics of writers and the revolution in literature

Chapter 4. Philosophy: Althusser, the theoretical weapon of a revival of Marxism

Chapter 5. Cinema: the sensible fabric of the new life


Notes

Über den Autor

Jacques Rancière is a leading French philosopher and Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Paris-St. Denis. He is the author of many books on politics and aesthetics including
Hatred of Democracy,
The Emancipated Spectator,
The Politics of Literature and
The Edges of Fiction.