Dissenting Words is a lively and engaging collection of interviews that span the length of Jacques Rancière's trajectory, from the critique of Althusserian Marxism and the work on proletarian thinking in the nineteenth century to the more recent reflections on politics and aesthetics. Across these pages, Rancière discusses the figures, concepts and arguments he has introduced to the theoretical landscape over the past forty years, the themes and concerns that have animated his thinking, the positions he has defended and the wide range of objects and discourses that have attracted his attention and through which his thought has unfolded: history, pedagogy, literature, art, cinema. But more than reflecting on the continuities, turns, ruptures and deviations in his thought, Rancière recasts his work in a different discursive register. And the pleasure we experience in reading these interviews – with their asides, displacements and reconstructions – stems from the way Rancière transforms the voice of the thinker commenting on his texts and elucidating his concepts into another, and equally rich, manifestation of his thought.
Core sections of this edition are translated from the french publication Et tant pis pour le gens fatigués, by Jacques Rancière, © Editions Amsterdam 2009, published by arrangement Agence litteraire Pierre Astier & Associés
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Table of contents
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- Title
- Contents
- Editor’s Preface
- 1 The Fraternal Image
- 2 Too Bad for You if You’re Tired!
- 3 The Visit to the People
- 4 Politics of Writing
- 5 The Names of History, a History of Names
- 6 The Ignorant Schoolmaster
- 7 Dissenting Words: A Conversation with Jacques Rancière
- 8 Politics Is Not Coextensive with Life or the State
- 9 Politics and Aesthetics: An Interview
- 10 Community as Dissensus
- 11 Identifications of the People
- 12 The Actuality of The Ignorant Schoolmaster
- 13 Losing Too Is Still Ours: An Interview about the Thwarted Politics of Literature
- 14 The Indecisive Affect
- 15 The New Anti-Democratic Discourse
- 16 Art of the Possible
- 17 Another Type of Universality
- 18 Critique of the Critique of the ‘Spectacle’
- 19 Constructing the Spaces of Politics
- 20 It’s Up to You to Invent the Rest
- 21 Back to Althusser
- Works cited: Jacques Rancière
- Index
- Copyright
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