Jacques Ranciere

Reviews / Votes

"Each chapter in this volume is an engaging and valuable critical engagement with RanciEre, and, while the book as a whole makes a persuasive case for a thorough and urgent reading of RanciEre's work, it is also a useful critical supplement to it." - Patrick Ffrench, French Studies "This timely collection of essays should finally jump-start the English-speaking conversation about the work of Jacques RanciEre, one of the most innovative political philosophers now writing. His method of equality, his contrast of a stable 'police' order with 'the political' as an interruption of that order by those invisible within it, and his idea that both politics and art involve modes of distributing/partitioning the sensible together form a unique constellation of radical political thinking."-J. M. Bernstein, New School for Social Research "What makes this volume the book that everyone interested in Jacques RanciEre has to have is its incomparable roster of contributors. RanciEre himself sets a standard of intellectual seriousness, and the contributors honor him by wrestling strenuously with his thought. They illuminate the trajectory of that thought and the connections between the historian of class and the philosopher of equality, the thinker of politics and the thinker of aesthetics. You can see why RanciEre is one of the few French thinkers creating an ever greater excitement in North America."-Bruce Robbins, author of Upward Mobility and the Common Good: Toward a Literary History of the Welfare State "It contextualises RanciEre's work in a way that one cannot achieve through reading him directly, offering a companion to his core writings. In addition nearly all of the pieces infuse RanciEre's work with a sense of urgency and timelessness that can often be lost in volumes focused on a single thinker. . . . An impressive and much-needed discussion of RanciEre's thought and should prove invaluable to those with an interest in his work." - Robert Glover (Political Studies Review) "Each chapter in this volume is an engaging and valuable critical engagement with RanciEre, and, while the book as a whole makes a persuasive case for a thorough and urgent reading of RanciEre's work, it is also a useful critical supplement to it." - Patrick French (French Studies)