Author: Jacques Rancière File Type: epub The Politics of Aesthetics rethinks the relationship between art and politics, reclaiming aesthetics from the narrow confines it is often reduced to. Jacques Ranciere reveals its intrinsic link to politics by analysing what they both have in common the delimitation of the visible and the invisible, the audible and the inaudible, the thinkable and the unthinkable, the possible and the impossible. Presented as a set of inter-linked interviews, The Politics of Aesthetics provides the most comprehensive introduction to Rancieres work to date, ranging across the history of art and politics from the Greek polis to the aesthetic revolution of the modern age. Now reissued10 years after its original publication, The Politics of Aesthetics includes an afterword by Slavoj Zizek, an interview for the English edition, a glossary of technical terms and an extensive bibliography. ReviewJacques Ranciere is one of the most important and original contemporary French philosophers. This book provides perhaps the best available introduction to his thought in English. Its main contents are two interviews with Ranciere...they provide an extraordinarily concise and systematic summary by Ranciere of the main themes of his recent work across its whole range. Rancieres project is promising. It is illuminating to see aesthetics as political and politics in aesthetic terms, as a form of the distribution of the sensible. -Culture Machine -- Culture Machine [A]n excellent introduction to Jacques Ranciere...Slavoj Zizek writes in his afterword Rancieres thought is today more actual than ever in our time of the disorientation of the left, his writings offer one of the few consistent conceptualizations of how we are to continue to exist. - London Review of Books, August 3, 2006 -- London Review of Books Ranciere has insightful and novel things to say about the problems that beset our understanding of modernity as it applies to art. Modern Painters, March 2005 Locating the political significance of art has not only gone out of fashion, it has in recent years become a source of embarrassment. No one has argued against this repression with more precision, nuance, and undeniable force than Jacques Ranciere ... This book, with an emphatic Afterword by Zizek, provides a riveting and compelling outline of the central elements of Rancieres politics of aesthetics and its relation to his demanding rethinking of the political. -- J.M. Bernstein, New School for Social Research A benchmark, this compact book shows why Ranciere is one of the most compelling thinkers and writers in France since Michel Foucault and Gilles Deleuze. -- Tom Conley, Harvard University, USA This is possibly the most important essay, despite its length, since Adornos Aesthetic Theory. -- Adrian Rifkin, Professor of Visual Culture, Middlesex University, UK A tour de force! Through a revitalisation of the term aesthetics, Ranciere is able to raise novel questions concerning the nature of history, the sense of our modernity, the relationship between work and art and between science and art, and the peculiarity of aesthetic experience (showing, in essence, that it cannot be contained but informs all our forms of life and activities). -- Keith Ansell Pearson, Professor of Philosophy, Warwick University, UK The readership for Rancieres work is highly interdisciplinary. Le Partage du sensible would be obligatory reading in graduate courses in Philosophy, Aesthetics, Political Science, French Studies, Literature, and Cultural Studies, where it would be read in the context of other major thinkers of politics and aesthetics such as Walter Benjamin, Jean-Paul Sartre, Roland Barthes, Jacques Derrida, Etienne Balibar, Michel Foucault, Paul Ricoeur, Jurgen Habermas, Jean-Francois Lyotard, and Slavoj Zizek. -- Kristin Ross, Professor of Comparative Literature, New York University, USA About the AuthorJacques Ranciere taught at the University of Paris VIII, France, from 1969 to 2000, occupying the Chair of Aesthetics and Politics from 1990 until his retirement. Gabriel Rockhill is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Villanova University, USA. He also teaches at the Centre Parisien dEtudes Critiques and the College International de Philosophie, France. He is the author of Logique de lhistoire Pour une analytique des pratiques philosophiques (Editions Hermann, 2010) and Pour un historicisme radical Entre esthetique et politique avec Ranciere (Editions du Sandre, forthcoming).

Author: Anecdotes of the Cynics[PenguinLBC v124] Ral File Type: epub p Segoe UIIts you who are the dogs...p Segoe UIWhat makes us happy? For over 800 years the Cynic philosophers of ancient Greece and Rome argued that the answer lay in a simple, self-sufficient life.p Segoe UIOne of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946. Each book gives readers a taste of the Classics huge range and diversity, with works from around the world and across the centuries - including fables, decadence, heartbreak, tall tales, satire, ghosts, battles and elephants.p Segoe UI**h3 Segoe UIAbout the Authorp Segoe UIDiogenes of Sinope was born around 412 to 404 BC and died in 323. Cynics were highly influential in both Greece and Imperial Rome and endured until the 5th century AD.

Author: Gideon Baker File Type: pdf The question of nihilism is always a question of truth. It is a crisis of truth that causes the experience of the nothingness of existence. What elevated truth to this existential position? The answer is philosophy. The philosophical will to truth opens the door to nihilism, since it both makes identifying truth the utmost aim and yet continually calls it into question. Baker develops the central insight that the crises of truth and of existence, or loss of world, that occur within nihilistic thought are inseparable, in a wide-ranging study from antiquity to the present, from ancient Cynics, St Paul, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Foucault, Agamben, and Badiou. Baker contends that since nihilism is always a question of the relation to the world occasioned by the philosophical will to truth, an answer to nihilism must be able to propose a new understanding of truth. **Review By situating entangled truths in time, methodically, brilliantly, Baker confronts the question of nihilism and charts the history of truth. Nicholas Onuf, Professor Emeritus of International Relations, Florida International University, USA This fluently written, erudite and elegantly argued book makes a major contribution to contemporary philosophical debates on the theme of nihilism and its overcoming. It demonstrates an impressive mastery of a remarkable range of primary figures and perspectives from across the Western philosophical tradition offering succinct, insightful expositions (of commendable clarity) and critical evaluations of (among others) the Cynics, Agamben, Badiou, Foucault, Heidegger, Nietzsche, Paul and Spinoza. This is an absorbing and significant book which stands out in a crowded field and merits a wide readership. It provides a stimulating alternative to other recent, similarly ambitious, critical overviews of the trajectory of philosophical nihilism. Jim Urpeth, Former Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Greenwich, UK About the Author Gideon Baker is Associate Professor in the School of Government and International Relations, Griffith University, Queensland, Australia.

Author: Walt Whitman File Type: pdf