Democracy and the Sensible. A systematic inquiry into the revolutionary thought of Jacques Rancière, deconstructing the inextricable link between the act of politics and the world of art.
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The Political Thinking of Jacques Rancière
By Chairat Charoensin-O-Larn
Jacques Rancière stands as one of the most enigmatic and defiant figures in contemporary philosophy. This volume offers a rigorous and systematic mapping of his intellectual trajectory, navigating the paradoxes that define his contribution to political thought.
As Jean-Philippe Deranty poignantly observes, Rancière is a thinker of contradictions and creative tensions:
"Rancière is a thinker deeply influenced by Marx, yet he utterly rejects Marxist sociology. He is an ontologist who harbors no faith in consciousness; a theorist of post-modernity who dismisses Lyotard’s philosophy of language; a critic of social domination who disputes Foucault’s conceptions of power. While he is a sociologist and historian attentive to the world's suffering, he remains a sharp critic of Bourdieu’s celebrated paradigms. He embraces 'Otherness' but rejects the conventional concept of 'Understanding.' In many ways, he is a Deleuzian theorist who nonetheless centers the autonomous, thinking subject at the very heart of his political inquiry."
In this masterful study, Professor Chairat Charoensin-O-Larn deconstructs the Rancièrean project across six meticulously crafted chapters, providing a bridge between Western radical theory and the broader global discourse on democracy and aesthetics.
// Table of Contents //
Politics: The Interruption of the Social Order
Disagreement (Mésentente): On the Logic of Political Conflict
The Politics of Aesthetics: The Distribution of the Sensible
The Politics of Literature: Narratives of Equality and Rupture
Conclusion: The Inextricable Nexus of Aesthetics and Politics
Appendix: Postscript — Towards a Deeper Understanding of Rancière
Details
▪️Format : Paperback
▪️Piyavit Tepumnuaysakul : Editor
▪️Designed by ● SM STUDIO | Chirawat Rotaim ●
▪️Published : September 2020
▪️Length : 144 pages
▪️ISBN : 978-616-562-012-3
▪️Dimensions (in) : 5.25 x 8.25
▪️Price : 200 THB
