Understanding Ranci}}re, Understanding Modernism [Hardcover]

The contemporary philosopher Jacques Ranci?re has become over the last two decades one of the most influential voices in philosophy, political theory, and literary, art historical, and film criticism. His work reexamines the divisions that have defined our understanding of modernity, such as art and politics, representation and abstraction, and literature and philosophy. Working across these divisions, he engages the historical roots of modernism at the end of the eighteenth century, uncovering forgotten texts in the archive that trouble our notions of intellectual history. The contributors toUnderstanding Ranci?re, Understanding Modernismengage with the multiplicity of Ranci?re's thought through close readings of his texts, through comparative readings with other philosophers, and through an engagement with modernist works of art and literature. The final section of the volume includes an extended glossary of the most important terms used by Ranci?re, which will be a valuable resource for experts and students alike.Patrick M. Brayis Associate Professor of French at the Ohio State University, USA. He is the author ofThe Novel Map: Space and Subjectivity in Nineteenth-Century French Fiction(2013) and co-editor ofBuilding the Louvre: Architectures of Politics and Art(2014).Patrick Brays collectionUnderstanding Ranci?re, Understanding Modernismbrings together some of the foremost scholars engaging with the work of Jacques Ranci?re today. What is perhaps most notable about it, however, is that reading it is akin to finding oneself in the unpredictable library that Ranci?re laments the loss of in the volumes concluding interview. If the old Biblioth?que Nationales heterogeneous books&grouped together side by side, enabled Ranci?re to write as he does, crossing disciplinary borders and thinking around singular problems in the mode of discovery rather than mastery, the volumes approach to Ranci?re operates on a similar principallSÊ