Description
Book Synopsis* Jacques Ranciere is one of the leading philosophers in France today, well-known for his work on aesthetics, politics and the philosophy of literature. * This book is a thoughtful and stimulating account of the relationship between literature and politics, in the style of great thinkers like Sartre.
Trade Review"By 'politics of literature' Rancière means the intervention of the new democratic literature of modernity in the parceling out of space and time. There is more than one democracy at stake here, and no one has tracked their competing claims and contradictory vocations more brilliantly than Rancière. Every page of this riveting work illuminates and challenges. This is Rancière at his scintillating best."
J.M. Bernstein, New School for Social Research Table of ContentsOriginal Sources
Hypotheses
- The Politics of Literature
- Literary Misunderstanding
Figures
- The Putting to Death of Emma Bovary: Literature, Democracy and Medicine
- On the Battlefield: Tolstoy, Literature, History
- The Intruder: Mallarmé's Politics
- The Gay Science of Bertolt Brecht
- Borges and French Disease
Crossings
- The Truth Through the Window: Literary Truth, Freudian Truth
- The historian, literature and the genre of biography
- The Poet at the philosopher's: Mallarmé and Badiou
