Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction

Doors and Windows

Behind the Windows
The Eyes of the Poor
What Voyeurs See
Window with a Street View

The Threshold of Science

The Commodity's Secret
Causality's Adventures

The Shores of the Real

The Unimaginable
Paper Landscapes

The Edge of the All and the Nothing

The Random Occurrence
Two Stories of Poor People
The Mute's Speech
The Measureless Moment

About the Author

Jacques Ranciere is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Paris-St. Denis.

Reviews

'A probing and scintillating new book on the meaning, rationality and politics of literary fiction. Ranciere illuminates the surprising connection between the logic of tragedy, in which ignorance leads to misfortune, and explanation in the modern social sciences. He interrogates how that paradigm slowly unwinds into the democratizing tumult of modernism. An invaluable addition to our understanding of a topic Ranciere has made his own: the aesthetic conditions of political reason.'
J.M. Bernstein, The New School for Social Research