Author: Jacques Ranciere

Chekhov’s short stories offer a subtle yet powerful message: that there is potential for change in our lives. Contrary to the image of a desolate s...

This is a brand new translation of a series of reflections by Jacques Ranciere exploring the nature of consensus in contemporary politics. In this ...

This new collection of challenging literary studies plays with a foundational definition of Western culture: the word become flesh. But the word be...

This new collection of challenging literary studies plays with a foundational definition of Western culture: the word become flesh. But the word be...

Chekhov’s short stories offer a subtle yet powerful message: that there is potential for change in our lives. Contrary to the image of a desolate s...

This book analyzes a range of texts that seek, in different ways, to represent "the people." Rancière approaches these texts as travel narratives o...

This book analyzes a range of texts that seek, in different ways, to represent "the people." Rancière approaches these texts as travel narratives o...

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 ma...

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 ma...

Dissensus: On Politics and Aesthetics brings together some of Jacques Rancière's most recent writings on art and politics to show the critical pote...

This book is not concerned with the use of Freudian concepts for the interpretation of literary and artistic works. Rather, it is concerned with wh...

Only yesterday aesthetics stood accused of concealing cultural games of social distinction. Now it is considered a parasitic discourse from which a...

This book is not concerned with the use of Freudian concepts for the interpretation of literary and artistic works. Rather, it is concerned with wh...

Translated by Steven Corcoran Only yesterday aesthetics stood accused of concealing cultural games of social distinction. Now it is considered a p...

“Is there any such thing as political philosophy?” So begins this provocative book by one of the foremost figures in Continental thought. Here, Jac...

In this important new book the leading philosopher Jacques Rancière continues his reflections on the representative power of works of art. How does...

The politics of literature is not the same as the politics of writers and their commitments, nor does it concern the way writers represent social s...

"Is it meaningful to call oneself a democrat? And if so, how do you interpret the word?" In responding to this question, eight iconoclastic thinke...

Jacques Ranciere has continually unsettled political discourse, particularly through his questioning of aesthetic "distributions of the sensible," ...

In Film Fables Jacques Ranciere turns his critical eye to the history of modern cinema. Combining an extraordinary breadth of analysis with an atte...