Mute Speech Literature, Critical Theory, and Politics

Name: Mute Speech Literature, Critical Theory, and Politics
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ISBN: 9780231151030

ISBN-10: 0231151039

ISBN-13: 9780231151030

Edition: 2011

Authors: Jacques Ranciere, Gabriel Rockhill, James Swenson

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Throughout his career, shaped by a notable collaboration with Louis Althusser, Jacques Rancière has continually unsettled political discourse, particularly by examining its relationship to aesthetics. Like Michel Foucault, he broke with his many of his predecessors to upend dominant twentieth-century historical narratives and critical theories. Often overlooked in the canon of his works, Mute Speech contains the critical seeds of Rancière's most provocative assertions, challenging the intellectual orthodoxy that had come to define the nature of art and representation.Arguing that art is neither inherently political nor colonized by politics, Rancière casts art and politics as "distributions…

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List price: $19.00
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 11/1/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Size: 5.75" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English



Introduction: Through the Looking Glass-The Subversion of the Modernist Doxa



Introduction: From One Literature to Another



From Restricted to General Poetics



From Representation to Expression



From the Book of Stone to the Book of Life



The Book of Life and the Expression of Society



From Generalized Poetics to the Mute Letter



From the Poetry of the Future to the Poetry of the Past



The Book in Pieces



The Fable of the Letter



Writing at War



The Contradictions of the Work of Literature



The Book in Style



The Writing of the Idea



Artifice, Madness, the Work


Conclusion: A Skeptical Art


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