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Dissensus : on politics and aesthetics / Jacques Ranciáere ; e dited and translated by Steven Corcoran.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: London ; New York : Continuum, c2010.Description: vi, 230 p. ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 9781847064455 (hc)
  • 1847064450
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 320.01  22
Contents:
pt. I. The aesthetics of politics. Ten theses on politics -- Does de mocracy mean something? -- Who is the subject of the rights of man? -- Communism : from actuality to inactuality -- The people or the multitud es? -- Bio-politics or politics? -- September 11 and afterwards : a rup ture in the symbolic order? -- Of war as the supreme form of advanced p lutocratic consensus -- pt. II. The politics of aesthetics. The aesthet ic revolution and its outcomes -- The paradoxes of political art -- The politics of literature -- The monument and its confidences, or Deleuze and art's capacity of 'resistance' -- The ethical turn of aesthetics a nd politics -- pt. III. Response to critics. The use of distinctions.
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Books - Open Access Books - Open Access MISR Library - Open Shelves 320.01 RAN (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 001268630

Includes bibliographical references and index.

pt. I. The aesthetics of politics. Ten theses on politics -- Does de mocracy mean something? -- Who is the subject of the rights of man? -- Communism : from actuality to inactuality -- The people or the multitud es? -- Bio-politics or politics? -- September 11 and afterwards : a rup ture in the symbolic order? -- Of war as the supreme form of advanced p lutocratic consensus -- pt. II. The politics of aesthetics. The aesthet ic revolution and its outcomes -- The paradoxes of political art -- The politics of literature -- The monument and its confidences, or Deleuze and art's capacity of 'resistance' -- The ethical turn of aesthetics a nd politics -- pt. III. Response to critics. The use of distinctions.

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