Dissensus
Subtitle: on politics and aesthetics
By: Jacques Rancière ; edited and translated by Steven Corcoran
Contributors: Corcoran, Steve
Publisher: Continuum
Published: 2010
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 230
ISBN-13: 9781847064455
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: pt. I. The aesthetics of politics. 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: pt. II. The politics of aesthetics. 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 of 'resistance'; title: The ethical turn of aesthetics and politics; title: pt. III. Response to critics. The use of distinctions.