Ebook: Mute speech : literature, critical theory, and politics
- Tags: French literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism. Literature -- Philosophy. French literature. PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Deconstruction LITERARY CRITICISM / European / French
- Series: New directions in critical theory
- Year: 2011
- Publisher: Columbia University Press
- City: New York
- Language: English, French
- epub
Throughout his career, shaped by a notable collaboration with Louis Althusser, Jacques Rancière has continually unsettled political discourse, particularly by examining its relationship to aesthetics. Like Michel Foucault, he broke with his many of his predecessors to upend dominant twentieth-century historical narratives and critical theories. Often overlooked in the canon of his works, Mute Speech contains the Read more...
Abstract: Throughout his career, shaped by a notable collaboration with Louis Althusser, Jacques Rancière has continually unsettled political discourse, particularly by examining its relationship to aesthetics. Like Michel Foucault, he broke with his many of his predecessors to upend dominant twentieth-century historical narratives and critical theories. Often overlooked in the canon of his works, Mute Speech contains the critical seeds of Rancière's most provocative assertions, challenging the intellectual orthodoxy that had come to define the nature of art and representation. Arguing that