Bøger af Jacques Ranciere

Jacques Rancière er med Toke Lykkeberg Nielsens ord "en af Frankrigs største og mest respekterede filosoffer". Ranciére er først og fremmest en politisk tænker, og hovedværkerne i den henseende er La nuit des prolétaires (Proletarernes nat, 1981), Den uvidende lærer (1987) og La mésentente (Uoverensstemmelsen, 1995). Blandt disse udmærker Den uvidende lærer sig på flere måder. Den er forholdsvis kort og letlæst, henvender sig til et bredt publikum og er af den grund oversat til flere sprog end nogen anden af Rancières bøger (engelsk, tysk, spansk og portugisisk). Med dens radikale insisteren på lighedsprincippet kan den desuden forstås som udgangspunktet for Rancières politiske tænkning."I 1818 oplevede Jacques Jacotot, lektor i fransk litteratur ved universitetet i Leuven, et intellektuelt eventyr." Sådan begynder Den uvidende lærer, der er historien om denne revolutionære lærer, der med sin anti-pædagogik spredte panik i de lærde kredse i datidens Europa. Jacotot havde opdaget, at den bedste lærer er den, der intet ved om sit fag. En sådan lærer forklarer nemlig ikke noget, men tvinger sine elever til at tænke selv. Den uvidende lærer handler således om intellektuel emancipation og om det uanede potentiale i princippet om, at alle mennesker har en lige stor intelligens. Spørgsmålet om intelligensen vedrører i høj grad begge fløje i det drama om pædagogikken, der i udspiller sig i aviser, på fjernsyn og lige foran vore uskyldige børns næser i dagens Danmark. Begge fløje tager dog udgangspunkt i den umiddelbare ulighed i elevernes intellektuelle formåen. Jacques Rancière provokerer: Hvad om vi i stedet for at tage ulighederne for givet begyndte med at postulere lighedens princip? Hvad ville vore elever sige til det? Hvilke konsekvenser ville det få, ikke bare i pædagogisk øjemed, men også i politisk?Bogen er oversat af Holger Ross Lauritsen og indeholder et efterskrift af Kåre Blinkenberg.

Hvad forstås præcist med politisk kunst eller med kunstens politik? Hvor står vi med traditionen for kritisk kunst eller med ønsket om at gøre kunst til liv? Hvordan er æstetik og politik forbundne? I Den frigjorte beskuer og Det sanseliges deling undersøger Jacques Rancière, hvordan nye politiske og sociale væremåder kan opstå, og hvilke roller kunsten spiller i organiseringen af en fælles, sansemæssig virkelighed. Jacques Rancière (f. 1940) er professor emeritus ved Université de Paris VIII og forfatter til en række centrale bøger om æstetik og politik. Den frigjorte beskuer og Det sanseliges deling er to af hans vægtigste bidrag til samtidens æstetikteori. Bibliotek for ny kunstteori er en bogserie med oversættelser af international kunst- og kulturteori udgivet i samarbejde mellem Ny Carlsbergfondet og Informations Forlag. Ambitionen med serien er at skabe en større offentlig samtale om ny kunst og kunstteori gennem bøger, arrangementer og podcast. Tidligere er Toldfri kunst, Samtidskunstens teorier og Vores æstetiske kategorier udkommet.

Aesthetics is not a politics by accident but in essence. But this politics operates in the unresolved tension between two opposed forms of politics: the first consists in transforming art into forms of collective life, the second in preserving from all forms of militant or commercial compromise the autonomy that makes it a promise of emancipation.

Dissenting Words is a lively and engaging collection of interviews that span the length of Jacques Rancière's trajectory, from the critique of Althusserian Marxism and the work on proletarian thinking in the nineteenth century to the more recent reflections on politics and aesthetics. Across these pages, Rancière discusses the figures, concepts and arguments he has introduced to the theoretical landscape over the past forty years, the themes and concerns that have animated his thinking, the positions he has defended and the wide range of objects and discourses that have attracted his attention and through which his thought has unfolded: history, pedagogy, literature, art, cinema. But more than reflecting on the continuities, turns, ruptures and deviations in his thought, Rancière recasts his work in a different discursive register. And the pleasure we experience in reading these interviews - with their asides, displacements and reconstructions - stems from the way Rancière transforms the voice of the thinker commenting on his texts and elucidating his concepts into another, and equally rich, manifestation of his thought.Core sections of this edition are translated from the french publication Et tant pis pour le gens fatigués, by Jacques Rancière, © Editions Amsterdam 2009, published by arrangement Agence litteraire Pierre Astier & Associés

Udgivelsen samler de to centrale essays »Ti teser om politik« og »Politik, identifikation, subjektivering« som er oversat fra fransk af Anton Sylvest Lilleør. Disse to essays udgør Rancières væsentligste kortere politiske bidrag, og er forsynet med et forord, der opridser de vigtigste hovedlinjer i forfatterens tænkning.Fra forordet: »Samfundet er til enhver tid ordnet på en bestemt måde: Nogle aktiviteter og personer er synlige, mens andre ikke er; nogle kan få ørenlyd og andre kan ikke; og nogles ytringer, når de lykkes med at trænge igennem, høres som tale, mens andres høres som støj. […] Sagt på en anden måde: Politik er ikke regering eller styring. Politik er snarere uregerlighed og forstyrrelse.«

Gives politics the following meaning: the organization of dissent.

Following the previous volume of essays by Jacques Rancire from the 1970s, Staging the People: The Proletarian and His Double, this second collection focuses on the ways in which radical philosophers understand the people they profess to speak for. The Intellectual and His People engages in an incisive and original way with current political and cultural issues, including the ';discovery' of totalitarianism by the ';new philosophers,' the relationship of Sartre and Foucault to popular struggles, nostalgia for the ebbing world of the factory, the slippage of the artistic avant-garde into defending corporate privilege, and the ambiguous sociological critique of Pierre Bourdieu. As ever, Rancire challenges all patterns of thought in which one-time radicalism has become empty convention.

The theorists of art and film commonly depict the modern audience as aesthetically and politically passive. In response, both artists and thinkers have sought to transform the spectator into an active agent and the spectacle into a communal performance.In this follow-up to the acclaimed The Future of the Image, Ranciere takes a radically different approach to this attempted emancipation. First asking exactly what we mean by political art or the politics of art, he goes on to look at what the tradition of critical art, and the desire to insert art into life, has achieved. Has the militant critique of the consumption of images and commodities become, ironically, a sad affirmation of its omnipotence?

Man kan lære alene og uden en forklarende lærer, når man vil, det vil sige, når man presses af sit begær eller situationens tvingendeomstændigheder.Mennesket er en vilje, der tjenes af enintelligens. Måske er det tilstrækkeligt, at disse viljer ikke er ligebydende for at forklare forskelle mellem folks opmærksomhed, og disseforskelle er måske tilstrækkelige til at forklare uligheden mellemintellektuelle præstationer.

Develops a fresh concept of the image in contemporary art, showing how art and politics have always been intrinsically intertwined. Covering a range of art movements, and thinkers such as Foucault, Deleuze, Adorno, Barthes, Lyotard and Greenberg, the author argues that contemporary theorists of the image are suffering from religious tendencies.

First published in French as Les bords de la fiction (Paris: aEditions du Seuil, 2017).

"In this book, Jacques Ranciaere explores how political relations develop fundamentally from sensual experience, as individual feelings become the concern of the whole community. Since politics emerges then from the 'division of the sensual', aesthetic experience becomes a radical means for social and political upheaval"--

This text examines intellectual emancipation, the method and philosophy of teaching devised by Joseph Jacotot in 1818. The book contains a description and analysis of Jacotot's method, its premises, and implications for understanding both the learning process and the emancipation that results.

Axel Honneth is best known for his critique of modern society centered on a concept of recognition. Jacques Ranciere has advanced an influential theory of modern politics based on disagreement. Underpinning their thought is a concern for the logics of exclusion and domination that structure contemporary societies. In a rare dialogue, these two philosophers explore the affinities and tensions between their perspectives to provoke new ideas for social and political change.Honneth sees modern society as a field in which the logic of recognition provides individuals with increasing possibilities for freedom and is a constant catalyst for transformation. Ranciere sees the social as a policing order and the political as a force that must radically assert equality. Honneth claims Ranciere's conception of the political lies outside of actual historical societies and involves a problematic desire for egalitarianism. Ranciere argues that Honneth's theory of recognition relies on an overly substantial conception of identity and subjectivity. While impassioned, their exchange seeks to advance critical theory's political project by reconciling the rift between German and French post-Marxist traditions and proposing new frameworks for justice.

In this vehement defence of democracy, Jacques Ranciere explodes the complacency of Western politicians who pride themselves as the defenders of political freedom. As America and its allies use their military might in the misguided attempt to export a desiccated version democracy, and reactionary strands in mainstream political opinion abandon civil liberties, Ranciere argues that true democracygovernment by allis held in profound contempt by the new ruling class. In a compelling and timely analysis, Hatred of Democracy rethinks the subversive power of the democratic ideal.

Translated from: La maethode de l'aegalitae.

Proletarian Nights, previously published in English as Nights of Labor and one of Ranciere's most important works, dramatically reinterprets the Revolution of 1830, contending that workers were not rebelling against specific hardships and conditions but against the unyielding predetermination of their lives. Through a study of worker-run newspapers, letters, journals, and worker-poetry, Ranciere reveals the contradictory and conflicting stories that challenge the coherence of these statements celebrating labor.This updated edition includes a new preface by the author, revisiting the work twenty years since its first publication in France.

Jacques Ranciere has continually unsettled political discourse, particularly through his questioning of aesthetic "e;distributions of the sensible,"e; which configure the limits of what can be seen and said. Widely recognized as a seminal work in Ranciere's corpus, the translation of which is long overdue, Mute Speech is an intellectual tour de force proposing a new framework for thinking about the history of art and literature. Ranciere argues that our current notion of "e;literature"e; is a relatively recent creation, having first appeared in the wake of the French Revolution and with the rise of Romanticism. In its rejection of the system of representational hierarchies that had constituted belles-letters, "e;literature"e; is founded upon a radical equivalence in which all things are possible expressions of the life of a people. With an analysis reaching back to Plato, Aristotle, the German Romantics, Vico, and Cervantes and concluding with brilliant readings of Flaubert, Mallarme, and Proust, Ranciere demonstrates the uncontrollable democratic impulse lying at the heart of literature's still-vital capacity for reinvention.