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1	The Politics of Aesthetics: The Distribution of the Sensible more books like this by Jacques Ranciere, Gabriel Rockhill (Translator) add to wishlist "The Politics of Aesthetics" rethinks the relation between art and politics, reclaiming "aesthetics" from its current narrow confines to reveal its significance for contemporary experience. Here, Jacques Ranciere develops a critical aesthetic that goes far beyond the paradigms of modernism and modernity and their 'posts' which still haunt us. ... see all copies from $12.87! new only from $12.87! \| SVS
2	The Ignorant Schoolmaster: Five Lessons in Intellectual Emancipation more books like this by Jacques Ranciere add to wishlist This extraordinary book can be read on several levels. primarily, it is the story of Joseph Jacotot, an exiled French schoolteacher who discovered in 1818 an unconventional teaching method that spread panic throughout the learned community of Europe. Knowing no Flemish, Jacotot found himself able to teach in French to Flemish students who knew no ... see all copies from $22.00! new only from $24.41!
3	The Future of the Image more books like this by Jacques Ranciere, Gregory Elliott (Translator) add to wishlist A major philosopher presents a fascinating treatise on the radical future of art and film. In "The Future of the Image", Jacques Ranciere develops a fascinating new concept of the image in contemporary art, showing how art and politics have always been intrinsically intertwined. Covering a range of art movements, and thinkers such as Foucault, ... see all copies from $10.00! new only from $10.00! \| SVS
4	On the Shores of Politics more books like this by Jacques Ranciere, Liz Heron (Translator) add to wishlist It is frequently said that we are living through the end of politics, the end of social upheavals, the end of utopian folly. Consensual realism is the order of the day. But political realists, remarks Jacques Ranciere, are always several steps behind reality, and the only thing which may come to an end with their dominance is democracy. "We could" ... see all copies from $8.00! new only from $8.15! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	Hatred of Democracy more books like this by Jacques Ranciere, Steve Corcoran (Translator) add to wishlist This title offers a vehement defense of the principle of democracy against neoconservative repression. Jacques Ranciere argues that the West can no longer simply extol the virtues of democracy by contrasting it with the horrors of totalitarianism. As certain governments are exporting democracy by brute force, and a reactionary strand in mainstream ... see all copies from $10.57! new only from $10.57! \| SVS
6	The Philosopher and His Poor more books like this by Jacques Ranciere add to wishlist What has philosophy to do with the poor? If, as has often been supposed, the poor have no time for philosophy, then why have philosophers always made time for them? Why is the history of philosophy - from Plato to Karl Marx to Jean Paul Sartre to Pierre Bourdieu - the history of so many figures of the poor: plebes, men of iron, the demos, artisans ... see all copies from $14.95! new only from $14.95! \| first editions \| SVS
7	The Names of History: On the Poetics of Knowledge more books like this by Jacques Ranciere, Hassan Melehy (Translator), Professor Hayden White (Designer) add to wishlist see all copies from $17.01! new only from $22.50! \| first editions \| SVS
8	Aesthetics and Its Discontents more books like this by Jacques Ranciere add to wishlist This book is translated by Steven Corcoran. Only yesterday aesthetics stood accused of concealing cultural games of social distinction. Now it is considered a parasitic discourse from which artistic practices must be freed. But aesthetics is not a discourse. It is an historical regime of the identification of art. This regime is paradoxical, ... see all copies from $18.70! new only from $18.70! \| SVS
9	The Flesh of Words: The Politics of Writing more books like this by Jacques Ranciere, Charlotte Mandell (Translator) add to wishlist This new collection of challenging literary studies plays with a foundational definition of Western culture: the word become flesh. But the "word become flesh" is not, or is no longer, a theological already-given. It is a millennial goal or telos toward which each text strives. see all copies from $16.23! new only from $16.23! \| SVS
10	Short Voyages to the Land of the People more books like this by Jacques Ranciere, James B Swenson (Translator) add to wishlist This book reads a series of texts as essentially journeys across class lines and shows how the image of "the people" functions in them as a point of reference onto which the observer projects a conceptual framework based on the observer's own circumstances. To understand the considerable importance of this theme (which harks back in some ways to ... see all copies from $17.67! new only from $17.67! \| SVS
11 view cover	Film Fables more books like this by Jacques Ranciere, Emiliano Battista (Translator) add to wishlist "Film Fables" traces the history of modern cinema. Encyclopedic in scope, "Film Fables" is that rare work that manages to combine extraordinary breadth and analysis with a lyricism which attests time and again to a love of cinema. Jacques Ranciere moves effortlessly from Eisenstein's and Murnau's transition from theatre to film to Fritz Lang's ... see all copies from $29.95! new only from $29.95! \| SVS
12 view cover	Disagreement: Politics and Philosophy more books like this by Jacques Ranciere, Julie Rose (Translator) add to wishlist "Is there any such thing as political philosophy?" So begins this provocative book by one of the foremost figures in Continental thought. Here, Jacques Ranciere brings a new and highly useful set of terms to the vexed debate about political effectiveness in the face of a new world order. What precisely is at stake in the relationship between ... see all copies from $36.67! new only from $36.67! \| first editions
13 view cover	Alfredo Jaar: La Politique Des Images more books like this by Alfredo Jaar (Illustrator), Georges Didi-Huberman (Text by), Jacques Ranciere (Text by) add to wishlist Edited by Nicole Schweizer. Text by Griselda Pollock, Jacques Ranciere, Nicole Schweizer, Georges Didi-Huberman. see all copies from $33.81! new only from $33.81! \| SVS
14	Raymond Depardon: Detours by Raymond Depardon, Jacques Ranciere, France) Maison europeenne de la photographie (Paris add to wishlist see all copies from $56.80! new only from $56.80!
15 view cover	The Philosopher & His Poor-CL more books like this by Jacques Ranciere, Jacques Ranciere, Dr. Andrew Parker (Introduction by) add to wishlist What has philosophy to do with the poor? If, as has often been supposed, the poor have no time for philosophy, then why have philosophers always made time for them? Why is the history of philosophy - from Plato to Karl Marx to Jean Paul Sartre to Pierre Bourdieu - the history of so many figures of the poor: plebes, men of iron, the demos, artisans ... see all copies from $50.00!
16	La Fable Cinematographique (La Librairie Du Xxie Siecle) by Jacques Ranciere add to wishlist see all copies from $73.00! new only from $73.00!
17	La Chair Des Mots: Politiques de L'Ecriture more books like this by Jacques Ranciere add to wishlist see all copies from $86.50! new only from $86.50!
18	Mallarme by Jacques Ranciere add to wishlist see all copies from $41.28! new only from $41.28!
19	Breves Viajes Al Pais del Pueblo by Jacques Ranciere add to wishlist see all copies from $32.51! new only from $32.51!
20	En Los Bordes De Lo Politico by Ranciere Jacques add to wishlist see all copies from $40.06! new only from $40.06!
21	Le Partage Du Sensible: Esthètique Et Politique by Jacques Ranciëre add to wishlist see all copies from $44.88! new only from $44.88!
22	Maestro Ignorante, El by Ranciere Jacques add to wishlist see all copies from $99.00! new only from $99.00!
23 view cover	Odio a La Democracia, El by Jacques Ranciere add to wishlist see all copies from $26.98! new only from $26.99!
24 view cover	The Emancipated Spectator more books like this by Jacques Ranciere add to wishlist In this title, the foremost philosopher of art argues for a new politics of seeing. The role of the viewer in art and film theory revolves around a theatrical concept of the spectacle. The masses subjected to the society of spectacle have traditionally been seen as aesthetically and politically passive - in response, both artists and thinkers have ... see all copies from $15.00! new only from $15.00! \| SVS
25	Das Unvernehmen. Politik Und Philosophie by Jacques Ranciere add to wishlist see all copies from $18.41! new only from $24.40!

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