"A piercing essay on the definitions and redefinitions of the term 'democracy.'"- Times Higher Education Supplement
Jacques Rancière is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris-VIII. His books include The Politics of Aesthetics, On the Shores of Politics, Short Voyages to the Land of the People, The Nights of Labor, Staging the People, and The Emancipated Spectator.
Ranciere critiques the political stance in the west that pours
scorn on mass protests and popular culture at home, yet promotes
the spread of democracy by force throughout the world ... But
Ranciere eschews polemic in order to show the confusion in our
political discourse. He challenges what he sees as the widely held
view that democratic life is synonymous with 'the apolitical life
of the indifferent consumer.'
*New Statesman*
This tastily sardonic essay is partly a scholarly sprint through
the history of political philosophy, and partly a very enjoyable
stream of insults directed at rival penseurs.
*Guardian*
A piercing essay on the definitions and redefinitions of the term
'democracy' ... the present catastrophe in Iraq provides more than
ample proof of Ranciere's bold assertion that we need to rethink
the relationship between democracy and power before setting in
motion any more wars in the name of 'freedom.'
*Times Higher Education Supplement*
In our time of the disorientation of the left, Rancière's writings
offer one the few consistent conceptualizations of how are to
continue to resist.
*Slavoj Zizek*
One of the most compelling thinkers and writers in France since
Michel Foucault and Gilles Delueze.
*Tom Conley*
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