Moments politiques
Subtitle: interventions 1977-2009
By: Jacques Rancière ; translated by Mary Foster
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 202
ISBN-13: 9781609805333
Subjects: Philosophy; World politics; Political science
Work titles: Moments politiques
Description: "Moments Politiques collects the short essays and interviews of Jacques Rancière from a span of thirty years, 1977 to 2007. Sparked by specific events in European and world news as they were happening, these pieces seek to call into question the inevitability we see in the world and undermine the legitimacy of what we think is possible. By examining the issues in which political moments arise, such as 9/11, immigration laws, and even the philosophy of Foucault, Rancière opens us up to the possibility of a different world, to reimagining, and re-charting, the map of what is possible"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Portrait of the old intellectual as a young dissident; title: Are there events in intellectual life?; title: Overlegitimation; title: The immigrant and the law of consensus; title: Feigned suffering; title: Sour grapes; title: Division of the arche; title: Society of the spectacle or society of the billboard?; title: Seven ways to spread racist ideas in France; title: The law and its ghost; title: What intellectual might mean; title: No crisis in the crisis; title: Politics and identity; title: Intersecting reasons; title: September II and after: a rupture in the symbolic order?; title: On war as the supreme form of advanced plutocratic consensus; title: An immaterial communism?; title: Advanced science and its backward aims; title: The state and the heat wave; title: On the Islamic headscarf: one universal can conceal another; title: Democracy, a necessary scandal; title: The philosopher without a megaphone; title: Political impurity; title: Election and democratic reason; title: The politics of disagreement; title: May '68 reviewed and corrected; title: The pleasure of political metamorphosis; title: "The worst of evils is power falling into the hands of those who desire it"; title: Communists without communism?