Dissenting Words Interviews with Jacques Ranci}}re [Hardcover]

Dissenting Wordsis a lively and engaging collection of interviews that span the length of Jacques Ranci??re's trajectory, from the critique of Althusserian Marxism and the work on proletarian thinking in the nineteenth century to the more recent reflections on politics and aesthetics. Across these pages, Ranci??re discusses the figures, concepts and arguments he has introduced to the theoretical landscape over the past forty years, the themes and concerns that have animated his thinking, the positions he has defended and the wide range of objects and discourses that have attracted his attention and through which his thought has unfolded: history, pedagogy, literature, art, cinema. But more than reflecting on the continuities, turns, ruptures and deviations in his thought, Ranci??re recasts his work in a different discursive register. And the pleasure we experience in reading these interviews ??? with their asides, displacements and reconstructions ??? stems from the way Ranci??re transforms the voice of the thinker commenting on his texts and elucidating his concepts into another, and equally rich, manifestation of his thought.

Jacques Ranci??retaught at the University of Paris VIII, France, from 1969 to 2000, occupying the Chair of Aesthetics and Politics from 1990 until his retirement.

Emiliano Battistais the translator of Jacques Ranci??re'sAlthusser's Lesson(2011) andFilm Fables(2006).

Editor's Preface, Emiliano Battista

1. The Fraternal Image
With Serge Daney and Serge Toubiana
Cahiers du cin??ma, 1976
2. Too Bad for You if You're Tired!
With Edmond El Maleh
Le Monde, 1981
3. The Visit to the People
With Serge Le P??ron and Charles Tesson
Cahiers du cin??ma, 1985
4. Politics of Writing
With M??nica Castro Netto
Philosophie, philosophie1993
5. The Names of History, a History of Names
With Martyne PilT