Author : Jacques Ranciere
Release : 2021-03-16
Genre : Philosophy
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 655/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Intellectual and His People by : Jacques Ranciere
Download or read book The Intellectual and His People written by Jacques Ranciere. This book was released on 2021-03-16. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the previous volume of essays by Jacques Rancière from the 1970s, Staging the People: The Proletarian and His Double, this second collection focuses on the ways in which radical philosophers understand the people they profess to speak for. The Intellectual and His People engages in an incisive and original way with current political and cultural issues, including the “discovery” of totalitarianism by the “new philosophers,” the relationship of Sartre and Foucault to popular struggles, nostalgia for the ebbing world of the factory, the slippage of the artistic avant-garde into defending corporate privilege, and the ambiguous sociological critique of Pierre Bourdieu. As ever, Rancière challenges all patterns of thought in which one-time radicalism has become empty convention.