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Responding to the increasing need for new and peaceful forms of emancipation, Stuart Blaney offers a unique solution in the synergy between two pioneering strands of continental philosophy: Michael Foucault's ideas on freedom and Jacques Ranciere's ideas on equality.

Building a dialogue between these two thinkers, Blaney presents new perspectives on their work and a clear picture that emancipation comes from everyday practices rather than any particular movement or revolution.

In exploring these combined views of equality and freedom, Blaney draws on some of the central facets of both concepts, including revolution, disagreement, care for the self, free speech and stoicism. To put these ideas into a practical framework of real, lived experience, we are introduced to the figure of Louis-Gabrielle Gauny the nineteenth century worker-poet and self confessed plebeian philosopher. Gauny is a nexus for Ranciere's and Foucault's ideas; his life exemplifying a d

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      Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 1/12/2024
      ISBN13: 9781350498877, 978-1350498877
      ISBN10: 1350498874
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Responding to the increasing need for new and peaceful forms of emancipation, Stuart Blaney offers a unique solution in the synergy between two pioneering strands of continental philosophy: Michael Foucault's ideas on freedom and Jacques Ranciere's ideas on equality.

      Building a dialogue between these two thinkers, Blaney presents new perspectives on their work and a clear picture that emancipation comes from everyday practices rather than any particular movement or revolution.

      In exploring these combined views of equality and freedom, Blaney draws on some of the central facets of both concepts, including revolution, disagreement, care for the self, free speech and stoicism. To put these ideas into a practical framework of real, lived experience, we are introduced to the figure of Louis-Gabrielle Gauny the nineteenth century worker-poet and self confessed plebeian philosopher. Gauny is a nexus for Ranciere's and Foucault's ideas; his life exemplifying a d

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