Jacques Rancière

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Jacques Rancière
Western Philosophy
20th / 21st-century philosophy
Full name Jacques Rancière
Birth 1940
Flag of France Algiers, Algeria
School/tradition Post-Marxism
Main interests Politics · Aesthetics
Notable ideas theories of democracy, disagreement, visual aesthetics

Jacques Rancière (born Algiers, 1940) is a French philosopher and Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris (St. Denis) who came to prominence when he co-authored Reading Capital (1968), with the Marxist philosopher Louis Althusser.

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[edit] Career

Rancière contributed to the influential volume Reading "Capital" (though his contribution is not contained in the partial English translation) before publicly breaking with Althusser over his attitude toward the May 1968 student uprising in Paris.

Since then, Rancière has departed from the path set by his teacher and published a series of works probing the concepts that make up our understanding of political discourse. What is ideology? What is the proletariat? Is there a working class? And how do these masses of workers that thinkers like Althusser referred to continuously enter into a relationship with knowledge? We talk about them but what do we know? An example of this line of thinking is Rancière's book entitled Le philosophe et ses pauvres (The Philosopher and His Poor, 1983), a book about the role of the poor in the intellectual lives of philosophers.

Most recently Rancière has written on the topic of human rights and specifically the role of international human rights organizations in asserting the authority to determine which groups of people — again the problem of masses — justify human rights interventions, and even war.

One of the few philosophers to write so influentially on a egalitarianism education and pedagogy besides Paulo Freires 'Pedagogy of the Oppressed'. Rancieres' book The 'Ignorant Schoolmaster: Five Lessons in Intellectual Emancipation', published in 1991, has earned its reputation as a must-read for educators, educators-to-be and students who may need emancipation from the ignorant schoolmasters pedagogy.

[edit] Influence

In 2006, it was reported that Rancière's aesthetic theory had become a point of reference in the visual arts,[1] and Rancière has lectured at such art world events as the Freize Art Fair.[2] Former French presidential candidate Ségolène Royal has cited Rancière as her favourite philosopher.[3]

[edit] Rancière and Russia

In 2003 Rancière co-signed, with other French intellectuals, a letter, addressed to Putin, protesting the illegitimacy of the 2003 Chechen referendum.[4]

[edit] Works

Rancière's work in English includes:

  • “Reply to Levy”. Telos 33 (Fall 1977). New York: Telos Press.
  • The Nights of Labor: The Workers' Dream in Nineteenth-Century France (1989): This book is an influential work of social history which examines in detail the records of ordinary workers' lives in order to produce a new picture of their surprising political sophistication. ISBN 0-87722-833-7.
  • The Ignorant Schoolmaster: Five Lessons in Intellectual Emancipation (1991): This book describes the emancipatory education of Joseph Jacotot, a post-Revolutionary philosopher of education who discovered that he could teach things that he himself did not know. The book is both a history and a contemporary intervention in the philosophy and politics of education, through the concept of autodidactism; Rancière chronicles Jacotot's "adventures," but he articulates Jacotot's theory of "emancipation" and "stultification" in the present tense. ISBN 0-8047-1969-1.
  • The Names of History: On the Poetics of Knowledge (1994): This is a relatively brief, but dense book, arguing for an epistemological critique of the methods and goals of the traditional study of history. It has been influential in the philosophy of history.
  • The Politics of Aesthetics: The Distribution of the Sensible Tr. Gabriel Rockhill (2004): ISBN 0-8264-7067-X.

Articles in English include:

  • "Who Is the Subject of the Rights of Man?" The South Atlantic Quarterly, Volume 103, Number 2/3, Spring/Summer 2004, pp. 297-310
  • "Is there a Deleuzian Aesthetics?" Tr. Radmila Djordjevic, Qui Parle?, Volume 14, Number 2, 2004, pp. 1-14

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[edit] References

  1. ^ Rancière, for Dummies - artnet Magazine
  2. ^ artforum.com / DIARY
  3. ^ United for Peace of Pierce County, WA - We nonviolently oppose the reliance on unilateral military actions rather than cooperative diplomacy
  4. ^ http://www.radikaly.ru/press-1935.html

Notes on the Politics of Aesthetics in Fillip

PNCA+FIVE Idea Studio Featuring Jacques Ranciére

Rancière, for Dummies - artnet Magazine

artforum.com / DIARY

United for Peace of Pierce County, WA - We nonviolently oppose the reliance on unilateral military actions rather than cooperative diplomacy

http://www.radikaly.ru/press-1935.html

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