Breves Viajes Al Pais del Pueblo

by Jacques Rancière

Dans des contrées toutes proches vit cet autre peuple qu’on appelle simplement le peuple. Des voyageurs s’arrêtent, surpris.Wordsworth franchit la Manche et traverse en poète la Révolution française. Des pèlerins saint-simoniens partent à la rencontre de travailleurs. Büchner croise un missionnaire égaré de la nouvelle doctrine sociale. Michelet et Rilke, devant la servante ou l’ouvrière, rêvent de vie réconciliée. Des prolétaires découvrent dans les mers du Sud le miroir inattendu de leur condition. Sur l’écran, Ingrid Bergman incarne la femme du monde en visite de l’autre côté de la société.De ces pérégrinations, chacun rapporte des images. Si elles s’accordent plus ou moins avec la réalité, elles circulent assurément dans les œuvres qui ouvrent de nouveaux chemins à l’utopie.

Genres: Philosophy

Paperback

First published February 1, 1990

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.

Reviews

[骆驼 · Rating 3 out of 5]

short voyages but in long winded Rancierean sentences.