Dissensus
Subtitle: on politics and aesthetics
By: Jacques Rancière ; translated by Steven Corcoran.
Contributors: Corcoran, Steve.
Publisher: Continuum
Published: 2010
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781847064455
Subjects: Political science -- Philosophy; Aesthetics -- Political aspects
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Translator's introduction; title: Preface; title: Part I: The aesthetics of politics; title: Ten theses on politics; title: Does democracy mean something?; title: Who is the subject of the rights of man?; title: Communism : from actuality to inactuality; title: The people or the multitudes; title: Bio-politics or politics; title: September 11 and afterwards : a rupture in the symbolic order; title: Of war as the supreme form of advanced plutocratic consensus; title: Part II: The politics of aesthetics; title: The aesthetic revolution and its outcomes; title: The paradoxes of political art; title: The politics of literature; title: The monument and its confidences or Deleuze and Art's capacity for resistance; title: The ethical turn of aesthetics and politics; title: Part III: Response to critics; title: The usage of distinctions.