Egalitarian Moments: From Descartes To Rancière (Bloomsbury Studies In Continental Philosophy)

Jacques Rancière places equality at the forefront of emancipatory political thought. This book locates the historical and critical sources of Rancière's politics and aesthetics in the modern period. Drawing on Rancière's suggestion that egalitarian politics persistently appropriates elements from political philosophy to engage new forms of dissensus, Shaw uncovers a series of egalitarian moments from the histories of modern philosophy and aesthetics, and goes on to examine Rancière's debates with Badiou, psychoanalysis, and Marxism. From the Cartesian bonsens, through the aesthetics of Schiller and Benjamin, to an important revaluation of existentialism and Marxism, this is a concise tour through the subterranean currents of the history of egalitarianism. The first book to reconstruct Rancière's relationship to Cartesianism and existentialism, and his ideas of equality in relation to aesthetics and politics, this is essential reading for students of philosophy, studying continental philosophy, aesthetics, cultural theory and cultural studies.

• • Author: Devin Zane Shaw
• • Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• • Publication Date: Nov 05, 2015
• • Number of Pages: 224 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Hardcover
• • ISBN-10: 1472505441
• • ISBN-13: 9781472505446