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  • The Emancipated Spectator

    by Jacques Ranciere ...
    The theorists of art and film commonly depict the modern audience as aesthetically and politically passive. In response, both artists and thinkers have sought to transform the spectator into an active agent and the spectacle into a communal performance.In this follow-up to the acclaimed The Future of the Image, Rancière takes a radically different approach to this attempted emancipation. First ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • The Intervals of Cinema

    by Jacques Ranciere ...
    Translated by John Howe ...
    Cinema, like language, can be said to exist as a system of differences. In his latest book, acclaimed philosopher Jacques Rancière looks at cinematic art in comparison to its corollary forms in literature and theatre. From literature, he argues, cinema takes its narrative conventions, while at the same time effacing literature’s images and philosophy; and film rejects theatre, while also ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Distant Freedom

    Essay on Chekhov

    by Jacques Ranciere ...
    Translated by Steven Corcoran ...
    Chekhov's fiction offers a subtle yet powerful message: another life is possible. Something can always happen to our lives – a possibility that breaks the monotony of servitude and points to a different, more liberated existence. This is the way to approach all these brief tales of lost lives, nights filled with tears and joy, landscapes, or love, against the cynicism of those who believe that ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Politics and Aesthetics

    by Jacques Rancière, Peter Engelmann ...
    Translated by Wieland Hoban ...
    In this book the influential philosopher Jacques Rancière, in discussion with Peter Engelmann, explores the enduring connection between politics and aesthetics, arguing that aesthetics forms the fundamental basis for social and political upheaval.Beginning from his rejection of structuralist Marxism, Rancière outlines the development of his thought from his early studies on workers’ emancipation ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Figures of History

    by Jacques Rancière ...
    Translated by Julie Rose ...
    In this important new book the leading philosopher Jacques Rancière continues his reflections on the representative power of works of art. How does art render events that have spanned an era? What roles does it assign to those who enacted them or those who were the victims of such events?Rancière considers these questions in relation to the works of Claude Lanzmann, Goya, Manet, Kandinsky and ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • The Groove of the Poem

    Reading Philippe Beck

    by Jacques Rancière ...
    Series series Univocal
    “Music is the brute that shows.It is the avowal of materials,And stutters between its clanging of things.”How should one think this musical groove of the poem whose back and forth motion shuffles the material of ordinary language and revives the frozen speech of old chants? This question by renowned French thinker Jacques Rancière is the entry point for his earnest and careful reading of one of ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Dissenting Words

    Interviews with Jacques Rancière

    by Jacques Rancière ...
    Translated by Emiliano Battista ...
    Dissenting Words is a lively and engaging collection of interviews that span the length of Jacques Rancière'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, Rancière discusses the figures, concepts and arguments he has introduced to the theoretical ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • Moments Politiques

    by Jacques Ranciere ...
    Translated by Mary Foster ...
    Translated from the French by Mary FosterHow do we define politics? What is our role in the unfolding of the political?Moments Politiques finds Jacques Rancière, the legendary French philosopher, addressing these questions in essays and interviews drawn from thirty years of passionate public discourse. Reflecting on events from the Paris uprisings of May 1968 to the near present, and on his ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD

  • Dissensus

    On Politics and Aesthetics

    by Jacques Rancière ...
    Translated by Mr Steven Corcoran ...
    Dissensus: On Politics and Aesthetics brings together some of Jacques Rancière's most recent writings on art and politics to show the critical potential of two of his most important concepts: the aesthetics of politics and the politics of aesthetics.In this fascinating collection, Rancière engages in a radical critique of some of his major contemporaries on questions of art and politics: Gilles ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Rethinking Emancipation

    Conversations with Aliocha Wald Lasowski

    by Jacques Ranciere ...
    Translated by Andrew Brown ...
    Faced with growing inequalities and new forms of domination and exploitation, can the movement of emancipation take on a new life today, or has it been arrested by the powers of repression and normalization?In order to address this question, Jacques Rancière pays close attention to the sociopolitical rhythms of our time, listening for the figures of trembling and oscillation that are often drowned ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Hatred of Democracy

    by Jacques Ranciere ...
    Translated by Steve Corcoran ...
    Series Book 8 - Radical Thinkers
    In this vehement defence of democracy, Jacques Rancière explodes the complacency of Western politicians who pride themselves as the defenders of political freedom. As America and its allies use their military might in the misguided attempt to export a desiccated version democracy, and reactionary strands in mainstream political opinion abandon civil liberties, Rancière argues that true democracy ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • The Edges of Fiction

    by Jacques Rancière ...
    Translated by Steve Corcoran ...
    What distinguishes fiction from ordinary experience is not a lack of reality but a surfeit of rationality – this was the thesis of Aristotle’s Poetics. The rationality of fiction is that appearances are inverted. Fiction overturns the ordinary course of events that occur one after the other, aiming to show how the unexpected arises, happiness transforms into unhappiness and ignorance into ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD