Understanding Rancière, Understanding Modernism

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The contemporary philosopher Jacques Rancière 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 to Understanding Rancière, Understanding Modernism engage with the multiplicity of Rancière’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 Rancière, which will be a valuable resource for experts and students alike. Cover Half Title Series Title Copyright Contents Notes on Contributors Series Preface List of Abbreviations Introduction: Toward a New Aesthetic Theory Part One Conceptualizing Rancière 1 The Hatred of Democracy and “The Democratic Torrent”: Rancière’s Micropolitics 2 Rancière’s Nineteenth Century: Equality and Recognition in Nights of Labor 3 The Ignorant Schoolmaster: Intellectual Emancipation in Circular Form Translation versus explication Bibliocentrism and the totality of the book The book as bridge Veracity’s orbit and the immateriality of intelligence Lasting lessons 4 Literature as Rancièrian Film Fable 5 The Emancipated Spectator and Modernism 6 Mute Speech: The Silence of Literature in Rancière’s Aesthetic Paradigm Literature in a fraught critical terrain Literature in Rancière’s philosophical trajectory Literature between historicity and the event 7 Le fil perdu: The Music of the Indistinct Part Two Rancière and Aesthetics 8 A Method of Equality: Rancière, Jokes, and Their Relation to They Drive by Night A zany story The diner Ed’s office The last laugh Credits where credit is due 9 Feminist Art: Disrupting and Consolidating the Police Order 10 Rancière and Proust: Two Temptations “I realize that my practice of philosophy makes the reading of my work difficult” “Addressing an author or a concept first means to me setting the stage for a disagreement, testing an operator of difference. “Literature is ... caught between two nullifications” (MS 146) “Literature emancipates when it doesn’t tell us how to use art or literature—how we have to understand, how we have to see, h Disagreement (or, perhaps, misunderstanding) 11 The Conception of the Will in Rancière’s Aesthetic Regime of the Arts: Pathos and Reverie in Stendhal, Ibsen, and Freud Suspension of the will to act: The passivity of the will in Stendhal’s The Red and the Black Obliteration of the will to know: The sickness of the “will” in Ibsen’s Rosmersholm The position of the will in the aesthetic regime of the arts 12 Dreaming Bourdieu Away: Rancière and the Reinvented Habitus 13 Rethinking the Aesthetics/Politics Nexus in Latin America Rancière in Latin America Dissensual communities, or what is a plaza? Part Three Glossary of Key Terms Distribution of the Sensible Fable Intellectual Equality Mute Speech Regimes of Art Part Four Interview with Jacques Rancière Understanding Modernism, Reconfiguring Disciplinarity: Interview with Jacques Rancière on May 11, 2015 Index