El tiempo de la igualdad

by Jacques Rancière

La presente obra, compuesta por una selección de entrevistas realizadas entre 1981 y 2007, despliega todas las cuestiones que, con el paso de los años, se han revelado fundamentales en el pensamiento de Jacques Rancière, el destacado filósofo francés discípulo de Louis Althusser, con quien colaboró en la redacción de Para Leer El capital. El lector podrá adentrarse y profundizar en el pensamiento de Rancière, que gira en torno a la lucha de clases y la igualdad, a partir del juego de preguntas y respuestas que agiliza el contenido, facilita la comprensión y, sin perder el rigor, hace emerger formulaciones directas, reveladoras incluso, por la fuerza de la interlocución. Los entrevistadores no se limitan al liviano intercambio de palabra, sino que invitan al autor a precisar puntos que les preocupan e incluso ponen abiertamente en cuestión su pensamiento, comparándolo con posiciones adoptadas por otros autores, como Marx, Althusser, Foucault, Barthes, Bourdieu o Negri. Frente a ellos, Rancière responde siempre de un modo contextualizado, teniendo en cuenta las dificultades que se plantean y las cuestiones que todavía permanecen en suspenso.

312 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 2009

About the author

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 do these masses of workers that thinkers like Althusser referred to continuously enter into a relationship with knowledge? We talk about them but what do we know? An example of this line of thinking is Rancière's book entitled Le philosophe et ses pauvres (The Philosopher and His Poor, 1983), a book about the role of the poor in the intellectual lives of philosophers.

Most recently Rancière has written on the topic of human rights and specifically the role of international human rights organizations in asserting the authority to determine which groups of people — again the problem of masses — justify human rights interventions, and even war.

In 2006, it was reported that Rancière's aesthetic theory had become a point of reference in the visual arts, and Rancière has lectured at such art world events as the Freize Art Fair. Former French presidential candidate Ségolène Royal has cited Rancière as her favourite philosopher.