Description: This collection of essays aims to investigate the unique place of Jacques Ranciere in the contemporary intellectual scene
Brief description:
Jean-Philippe Deranty is Associate
Professor in Philosophy at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. In addition
to his monograph on Axel Honneth, Beyond
Communication (Brill, 2009) and several edited collections on contemporary
Critical Theory, he is the editor of Jacques
Rancière: Key Concepts (Acumen, July 2010).
Review Quotes: This collection of essays is a testament to the breadth and depth of the influence of Ranciere's project to date. Staged as a series of specific interventions into the various fields that he has engaged with ranging from film theory and aesthetics to history, pedagogy, politics, work and emancipation it provides the reader with a kaleidoscope of perspectives that appropriately mirrors Ranciere's forceful impact on the contemporary scene. The final essay is a fitting capstone to this important collection since Ranciere himself provides a sustained reflection on his own asystematic work as an idiosyncratic analysis of the work of dissensus that is at one and the same time a performative manifestation thereof.--Sanford Lakoff