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Ranci�ere, Jacques.

Dissensus on politics and aesthetics / [electronic resource] : Jacques Ranci�ere ; edited and translated by Steven Corcoran. - London ; New York : Continuum, c2010. - vi, 230 p.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

pt. I. The aesthetics of politics. Ten theses on politics -- Does democracy mean something? -- Who is the subject of the rights of man? -- Communism : from actuality to inactuality -- The people or the multitudes? -- Bio-politics or politics? -- September 11 and afterwards : a rupture in the symbolic order? -- Of war as the supreme form of advanced plutocratic consensus -- pt. II. The politics of aesthetics. The aesthetic revolution and its outcomes -- The paradoxes of political art -- The politics of literature -- The monument and its confidences, or Deleuze and art's capacity of 'resistance' -- The ethical turn of aesthetics and politics -- pt. III. Response to critics. The use of distinctions.


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2016. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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Subjects--Topical Terms:
Political science--Philosophy.
Aesthetics--Political aspects.

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Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: JA71 / .R36 2010

Dewey Class. No.: 320.01