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Jacques Rancière

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Jacques Rancière (born Algiers, 1940) is a French philosopher and Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris (St. Denis) who came to prominence when he co-authored Reading Capital (1968), with the Marxist philosopher Louis Althusser.

Rancière contributed to the influential volume Reading "Capital" (though his contribution is not contained in the partial English translation) before publicly breaking with Althusser over his attitude toward the May 1968 student uprising in Paris.
Since then, Rancière has departed from the path set by his teacher and published a series of works probing the concepts that make up our understanding of political discourse. What is ideology? What is the proletariat? Is there a working class? And how d...more

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Books by Jacques Rancière

Average rating: 3.94 · 793 ratings · 97 reviews · 67 distinct works

	The Politics of Aesthetics: The Distribution of the Sensible by Jacques Rancière, Gabriel Rockhill (Translator) 3.79 avg rating — 184 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Ignorant Schoolmaster: Five Lessons in Intellectual Emancipation by Jacques Rancière, Kristin Ross (Translator) 4.20 avg rating — 113 ratings — 5 editions	My rating:
	The Future of the Image 3.70 avg rating — 92 ratings — published 2003 — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Emancipated Spectator 4.07 avg rating — 74 ratings — published 2008 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Hatred of Democracy by Jacques Rancière, Steve Corcoran (Translator) 3.89 avg rating — 65 ratings — published 2005 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Disagreement: Politics and Philosophy 4.44 avg rating — 41 ratings — published 1998 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Aesthetics and Its Discontents 3.97 avg rating — 38 ratings — published 2009 — 2 editions	My rating:
	On the Shores of Politics by Jacques Rancière, Liz Heron (Translator) 3.94 avg rating — 36 ratings — published 1995 — 4 editions	My rating:
	The Philosopher and His Poor by Jacques Rancière, Andrew Parker (Editor), John Drury (Translation) 4.05 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 1983 — 5 editions	My rating:
	The Aesthetic Unconscious 3.76 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 2004 — 2 editions	My rating: