For Revolt: Rancire, Abstract Space and Emancipation [Paperback]

This striking interpretation of Ranci?re's uncompromising view of emancipation draws on his Maoist commitments and invariably rational and Kantian-moralist basis. Tracing the logic of abstract and atemporal space in all of Ranci?re's work, it stands in contrast to the prevailing tendency to emphasise his sensitivity to evolving historical forms and changing regimes of sensibility. Overturning the meaning of Ranci?re's interest in the sensible makes the object of his thinking clear: a revolt against a reality structured according to ordered temporalities and forms of appearance.

In making its case,For Revoltreconstructs Ranci?re's relations to some of the crucial, yet unexplored, politico-historical frameworks of his thought, such as the Cultural-Revolutionary Maoism and the French Revolution, offering a fresh perspective on these revolutionary paradigms. Going against dominant views, this book argues for a fundamentally positive influence of Louis Althusser's philosophy on Ranci?re's thought and analyses his relation to Marx and Kant based on previously undiscussed early student work. Through a critical discussion of Ranci?re,For Revoltsheds light on the present predicament of emancipatory politics  its emphasis on the actualities of here and now and its difficulties in envisaging programmatic realisations of radically alternative futures.

Jussi Palmusaariholds a PhD from the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy, Kingston University London, UK. He has worked as a lecturer at Kingston University and King's College London, UK. He has published on European philosophy and political thought, and translated German and French philosophy into Finnish and English.

This brilliant, stimulating and enmeshing reading of Ranci?re teaches us that space is the future of time. Space of the stage. Space of equality. space of democracy. Between Kant and Marx, a new way of thinking about spatialization as emancipation develops. An ess