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Informationen zum Autor Jacques Rancière taught at the University of Paris VIII, France, from 1969 to 2000, occupying the Chair of Aesthetics and Politics from 1990 until his retirement. Steven Corcoran is a writer and translator living in Berlin. He has edited and/or translated several works by Jacques Rancière, including Dissensus (Continuum, 2010), two works by Alain Badiou, Polemics and Conditions , and Alienation and Freedom (Bloomsbury 2017) by Frantz Fanon. Steven Corcoran is a writer and translator living in Berlin. He has edited and/or translated several works by Jacques Rancière, including Dissensus (Continuum, 2010), two works by Alain Badiou, Polemics and Conditions , and Alienation and Freedom (Bloomsbury 2017) by Frantz Fanon. Klappentext Dissensus: On Politics and Aesthetics brings together some of Jacques Rancière's key recent writings on art and politics to show the critical potential of two of his most important concepts: the aesthetics of politics and the politics of aesthetics. In this illuminating collection, Rancière engages in a radical critique of some of his major contemporaries on questions of art and politics: Gilles Deleuze, Antonio Negri, Giorgio Agamben, Alain Badiou and Jacques Derrida. The essays show how Rancière's ideas can be used to analyse contemporary trends in both art and politics, including the events surrounding 9/11, war in the contemporary consensual age, and the ethical turn in aesthetics and politics. Rancière elaborates new directions for the concepts of politics and communism, as well as the notion of what a 'politics of art' might be. With a brand new introduction from the translator this is a superb collection of the work of one of the world's most influential contemporary thinkers. Zusammenfassung A collection of essays on art and politics. It shows how the author's ideas can be used to analyse contemporary trends in both art and politics, including the events surrounding 9/11, war in the contemporary consensual age, and the ethical turn of aesthetics and politics. Inhaltsverzeichnis Translator's Introduction \ Preface \ Part I: The Aesthetics of Politics \ 1. Ten Theses on Politics \ 2. Does Democracy Mean Something? \ 3. Who is the Subject of the Rights of Man? \ 4. Communism: From Actuality to Inactuality \ 5. The People or the Multitudes? \ 6. Biopolitics or Politics? \ 7. September 11 and Afterwards: A Rupture in the Symbolic Order? \ 8. Of War as the Supreme Form of Advanced Plutocratic Consensus \ Part II: The Politics of Aesthetics \ 9. The Aesthetic Revolution and its Outcomes \ 10. The Paradoxes of Political Art \ 11. The Politics of Literature \ 12. The Monument and its Confidences, or Deleuze and Art's Capacity for 'Resistance' \ 13. The Ethical Turn of Aesthetics and Politics \ Part III: Response to Critics \ 14. The Usage of Distinctions \ Index....
