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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Jacques Rancière , Gregory ElliottPublisher: Verso Books Imprint: Verso Books Dimensions: Width: 13.20cm , Height: 1.20cm , Length: 19.80cm Weight: 0.169kg ISBN: 9781844677610ISBN 10: 1844677613 Pages: 134 Publication Date: 01 October 2011 Audience: General/trade , General Replaced By: 9781788739641 Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsRanciere's writings offer one of the few conceptualizations of how we are to continue to resist. Slavoj Zizek What we see here is Ranciere developing a unique voice as a political theorist. Bookforum It's clear that Jacques Ranciere is relighting the flame that was extinguished for many - that is why he serves as such a signal reference today. Thomas Hirschhorn In this follow-up to his fruitful The Future of the Image, French philosopher Ranciere argues forcefully against familiar critiques of the spectacle ... This persuasive argument is fleshed out through close readings of art, photography, literature and video installation, and a drily amusing analysis of leftwing melancholy and rightwing frenzy in critiques of capitalism. - Steven Poole, Guardian What we see here is Ranciere developing a unique voice as a political theorist. - Bookforum French philosopher Jacques Ranciere is a refreshing read for anyone concerned with what art has to do with politics and society. - Art Review Ranciere's writings offer one of the few conceptualizations of how we are to continue to resist. - Slavoj Zizek The Emancipated Spectator is intended to improve our comprehension of art and deepen our grasp of the politics of perception ... [it has an] impressive concern with the political analysis of art and the use of imagery - Times Higher Education What we are given is, above all, a figure of the spectator whose capacities to sense and think are greater than we have been prepared to conceive. - Radical Philosophy His art lies in the rigor of his argument - its careful, precise unfolding - and at the same time not treating his reader, whether university professor or unemployed actress, as an imbecile. - Kristin Ross In the face of impossible attempts to proceed with progressive ideas within the terms of postmodernist discourse, Ranciere shows a way out of the malaise. - Liam Gillick It's clear that Jacques Ranciere is relighting the flame that was extinguished for many - that is why he serves as such a signal reference today. - Thomas Hirschhorn What we are given is, above all, a figure of the spectator whose capacities to sense and think are greater than we have been prepared to conceive. Author InformationJacques Rancière is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris-VIII. His books include The Politics of Aesthetics, On the Shores of Politics, Short Voyages to the Land of the People, The Nights of Labor, Staging the People, and The Emancipated Spectator. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |