Disagreement Politics and Philosophy

Name: Disagreement Politics and Philosophy
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ISBN: 9780816628452

ISBN-10: 0816628459

ISBN-13: 9780816628452

Edition: 2004

Authors: Jacques. Ranciï¿½re

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"Is there any such thing as political philosophy?" So begins this provocative book by one of the foremost figures in Continental thought. Here, Jacques Rancière brings a new and highly useful set of terms to the vexed debate about political effectiveness and "the end of politics."What precisely is at stake in the relationship between "philosophy" and the adjective "political"? In Disagreement, Rancière explores the apparent contradiction between these terms and reveals the uneasy meaning of their union in the phrase "political philosophy"--a juncture related to age-old attempts in philosophy to answer Plato's devaluing of politics as a "democratic egalitarian" process.According to Rancière,…

Book details

List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Publication date: 12/15/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 168
Size: 5.85" wide x 9.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.484

Jacques Ranciï¿½re taught at the University of Paris VIII, France, from 1969 to 2000, occupying the Chair of Aesthetics and Politics from 1990 until his retirement.