The French philosopher Jacques Rancière is well known across
the world for his groundbreaking contributions to aesthetic and
political theory and for his radical rethinking of the question of
equality. This much-needed new collection situates Rancière’s
thought in a range of practical and theoretical contexts.
These specially commissioned essays cover the complete history of
Rancière’s work and reflect its interdisciplinary reach. They
span his early historical research of the 1960s and ’70s, his
celebrated critique of pedagogy and his later political theory of
dissensus and disagreement, as well as his ongoing analysis of
literature and ‘the aesthetic regime of art’. Rancière’s
resistance to psychoanalytic thinking is also explored, as are his
most recent publications on film and film theory. Contributors
include Tom Conley, Carolyn Steedman, Geneviève Fraisse,
Jean-Luc Nancy, Jeremy Lane, and many more. The book also includes
a brand new interview with Rancière, reflecting on his
intellectual project and developing new lines of thought from his
latest major work, Aisthesis.
Rancière Now will be essential reading for students and
scholars across the humanities and social sciences; it will
stimulate and inspire discussion of Rancière’s work for
years to come.
Table des matières
Acknowledgements
List of Contributors
List of Abbreviations
Editor’s Introduction
Politics
1. Rancière, Politics and the Social Question
Jackie Clarke
2. Rancière’s anti-Platonism: Equality, the
‘Orphan Letter’ and the Problematic of the Social
Sciences
Jeremy F. Lane
3. Emancipation versus Domination
Geneviève Fraisse
History, Reading, Writing
4. Reading Rancière
Carolyn Steedman
5. The Paradoxical Pedagogy of Creative Writing
Caroline Pelletier and Tim Jarvis
6. The Share of Uncertainty
Sabine Prokhoris
Literature, Film, Art, Aesthetics
7. Why Julien Sorel Had to Be Killed
Joseph J. Tanke
8. Savouring the Surface: Rancière Between Film and
Literature
Tom Conley
9. The Politics of Art: Aesthetic Contingency and the Aesthetic
Affect
Oliver Davis
10. Rancière and Deleuze: Entanglements of Film Theory
Bill Marshall
11. Rancière and Metaphysics
A dialogue between Jean-Luc Nancy and Jacques
Rancière
12. On Aisthesis
An Interview with Jacques Rancière by Oliver
Davis
Notes
Index
A propos de l’auteur
Oliver Davis is Associate Professor of French Studies and Programme
Director of the Centre for Research in Philosophy, Literature and
the Arts at the University of Warwick. He is the author of, among
other works, the critical introduction Jacques Rancière
(Polity, 2010).