Jacques Rancière est un philosophe français dont l'œuvre explore les concepts fondamentaux du discours politique, interrogeant l'idéologie et la relation entre les masses et le savoir. Il s'est célèbrement démarqué de son maître pour examiner comment nous percevons les démunis et comment les penseurs interagissent avec ceux qui sont en dehors des cercles intellectuels. Ses écrits ultérieurs analysent les droits de l'homme, en particulier l'autorité des organismes internationaux pour déterminer les interventions et les conflits, et ses théories esthétiques ont considérablement influencé les arts visuels.
En 1818, Joseph Jacotot, révolutionnaire exilé et lecteur de littérature française à l'université de Louvain, commença à semer la panique dans l'Europe savante. Non content d'avoir appris le français à des étudiants flamands sans leur donner aucune leçon, il se mit à enseigner ce qu'il ignorait et à proclamer le mot d'ordre de l'émancipation intellectuelle : tous les hommes ont une égale intelligence. Il ne s'agit pas de pédagogie amusante, mais de philosophie et de politique. Jacques Rancière offre, à travers la biographie de ce personnage étonnant, une réflexion philosophique originale sur l'éducation. La grande leçon de Jacotot est que l'instruction est comme la liberté elle ne se donne pas, elle se prend. [source : 4e de couv.]
"Jacques Ranciere has continually unsettled political discourse, particularly through his questioning of aesthetic "distributions of the sensible," which configure the limits of what can be seen and said. Widely recognized as a seminal work in Ranciere's corpus, the translation of which is long overdue, Mute Speech is an intellectual tour de force proposing a new framework for thinking about the history of art and literature. Ranciere argues that our current notion of "literature" is a relatively recent creation, having first appeared in the wake of the French Revolution and with the rise of Romanticism. In its rejection of the system of representational hierarchies that had constituted belles-letters, "literature" is founded upon a radical equivalence in which all things are possible expressions of the life of a people. With an analysis reaching back to Plato, Aristotle, the German Romantics, Vico, and Cervantes and concluding with brilliant readings of Flaubert, Mallarme, and Proust, Ranciere demonstrates the uncontrollable democratic impulse lying at the heart of literature's still-vital capacity for reinvention."--Publisher description.
In Film Fables Jacques Ranciere turns his critical eye to the history of modern cinema. Combining an extraordinary breadth of analysis with an attentiveness to detail born from an obvious love of cinema, Ranciere shows us new ways of looking at and interpreting film. His analysis moves effortlessly from Eisenstein's and Murnau's transition from theatre to film to Fritz Lang's confrontation with television, from the classical poetics of Mann's Westerns to Ray's romantic poetics of the image, from Rossellini's neo-realism to Deleuze's philosophy of the cinema. The book also includes extended commentaries on the work of Hitchcock, Godard, Vertov and Bergman. Film Fables is essential reading for anyone wanting to gain a better understanding of the power and complexity of the cinematic form and it's rich history.
"What distinguishes fiction from ordinary experience is not a lack of reality but a surfeit of rationality -- this was the thesis of Aristotle's Poetics. The rationality of fiction is that appearances are inverted. Fiction overturns the ordinary course of events that occur one after the other, aiming to show how the unexpected arises, happiness transforms into unhappiness and ignorance into knowledge. In the modern age, argues Ranciére, this fictional rationality was developed in new ways. The social sciences extended the model of causal linkage to all spheres of human action, seeking to show us how causes produce their effects by inverting appearances and expectations. Literature took the opposite path. Instead of democratizing fictional rationality to include all human activity in the world of rational knowledge, it destroyed its principles by abolishing the limits that circumscribed a reality peculiar to fiction. It aligned itself with the rhythms of everyday life and plumbed the power of the "random moment" into which an entire life is condensed. In the avowed fictions of literature as well as in the unavowed fictions of politics, social science or journalism, the central question is the same: how to construct the perceptible forms of a shared world. From Stendhal to João Guimarães Rosa and from Marx to Sebald, via Balzac, Poe, Maupassant, Proust, Rilke, Conrad, Auerbach, Faulkner and some others, this book explores these constructions and sheds new light on the constitutive movement of modern fiction, the movement that shifted its centre of gravity from its traditional core toward those edges in which fiction gets confronted with its possible revocation"-- Provided by publisher
Consensus does not mean peace. Instead it refers to a map of operations of
war, of a topography of the visible, of what is possible and what can be
thought, in which war and peace live side-by-side. This book explores the
nature of consensus in contemporary politics. It aims to reopen that space
wherein politics once more becomes thinkable.
