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Dissensus [electronic resource] : on politics and aesthetics /

by Ranci�ere, Jacques; Corcoran, Steve; ProQuest (Firm).
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: London ; New York : Continuum, c2010Description: vi, 230 p.ISBN: ; .Subject(s): Political science -- Philosophy | Aesthetics -- Political aspects | Electronic booksOnline resources: Click to View
Contents:
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.
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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.

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