Dissensus on politics and aesthetics

Ranciere, Jacques.

Dissensus on politics and aesthetics - London Continuum 2010 - vi,230p. 21 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

pt. I. The aesthetics of politics. Ten theses on politics -- Does democracy mean something? -- Who is the subject of the rights of man? -- Communism : from actuality to inactuality -- The people or the multitudes? -- Bio-politics or politics? -- September 11 and afterwards : a rupture in the symbolic order? -- Of war as the supreme form of advanced plutocratic consensus -- pt. II. The politics of aesthetics. The aesthetic revolution and its outcomes -- The paradoxes of political art -- The politics of literature -- The monument and its confidences, or Deleuze and art's capacity of 'resistance' -- The ethical turn of aesthetics and politics -- pt. III. Response to critics. The use of distinctions.

9781847064455

2009023696


Political science--Philosophy.
Aesthetics--Political aspects.

JA71 / .R36 2010

320.01 / RA-D

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