The Politics of Aesthetics

Erscheinungsjahr 2006
ISBN: 978-0-8264-8954-8
Verlag: Continuum International Publishing Group

Buch, Englisch, 112 Seiten, Format (B × H): 129 mm x 198 mm

Reihe: Continuum Impacts

The Politics of Aesthetics rethinks the relation between art and politics, reclaiming aesthetics from its current narrow confines to reveal its significance for contemporary experience. Here, Jacques Rancière develops a critical aesthetic that goes far beyond the paradigms of modernism and modernity and their 'posts' which still haunt us.

The Politics of Aesthetics ranges across art and politics, the uses and abuses of modernity, the role of visual technologies, the relationship between history and fiction, utopias, the avant-garde and the three aesthetic regimes which constitute the 'partitions of the sensible.' Already translated into five languages, this English edition of The Politics of Aesthetics includes a new afterword by Slavoj Zizek and a new interview with Rancière in which he situates his writing within the context of the work of, amongst others, Foucault, Barthes, Ricoeur, Kristeva, Derrida, Badiou, Balibar and Zizek.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ranciere, Jacques

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ästhetik
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Kunsttheorie, Kunstphilosophie

Über Autor(innen)

Jacques Ranciere is Professor of Aesthetics at the University of Paris VIII (St. Denis).