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The Intellectual and His People

Staging the People Volume 2

Author: Jacques Rancière   Series: The Essential Ranciere

The Intellectual and His People
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Rethinking the role of the radical public intellectual

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Rethinking the role of the radical public intellectual

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A classic collection of essay by Jacques Ranciere, that 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, Rancière challenges all patterns of thought in which one-time radicalism has become empty convention.

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Critic Reviews

“"In the face of impossible attempts to proceed with progressive ideas within the terms of postmodernist discourse, Ranci”

In the face of impossible attempts to proceed with progressive ideas within the terms of postmodernist discourse, Rancière shows a way out of the malaise. -- Liam Gillick
Rancière's writings offer one of the few consistent conceptualizations of how we are to continue to resist. -- Slavoj Zizek

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About the Author

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.

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Publisher
Verso Books
Published
16th March 2021
Pages
192
ISBN
9781788739658

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