Proletarian Nights - The Workers Dream in Nineteenth-Century France

Zusatztext “With its innovative approach! Rancière’s difficult and provocative interpretation is essential reading.”— Choice “Rancière’s brilliant book ... locates the nineteenth-century origins of European socialism not in the noble desire of artisans to control their own labor but in the utopian visions of working-class poets who wanted to be free of labor altogether ... This is a powerful! piercing! and radical argument ... Rancière has merged his philosophical and historical interests into a profound commentary on the possibilities of human freedom and of the violence done to those possibilities in freedom’s name.”— Oral History Review “Drury’s translation puts it into English as directly and comprehensibly as possible. It’s a difficult job to do well! and the translator’s work goes a long way toward making the book more readable.”— Book News Informationen zum Autor Jacques Rancière Klappentext "This updated edition includes a new preface by the author"-- Back cover. Zusammenfassung A classic text by Ranciere on the intellectual thought of French workers in the 19th century.

About the author

Jacques Rancière is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris-VIII. His books include The Politics of Aesthetics, On the Shores of Politics, Short Voyages to the Land of the People, The Nights of Labor, Staging the People, and The Emancipated Spectator.Donald Reid is a professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His work focuses on French labour history and the history of collective memory in modern France.

Product details

• Authors: Jacques Ranci Re, Jacques Ranciere, Jacques Rancière, Donald Reid
• Assisted by: Donald Reid (Introduction), John Drury (Translation)
• Publisher: Verso
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.04.2012
• EAN: 9781844677788
• ISBN: 978-1-84467-778-8
• No. of pages: 478
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; France, PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Social & political philosophy, Political science & theory, social and political philosophy, Political science and theory