Jacques Rancière

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Jacques Rancière (born June 10, 1940 in Algiers ) is a French philosopher who is best known for his work on political philosophy and aesthetics . From 1969 to 2000 he taught at the University of Paris VIII ( Vincennes and Saint-Denis ).

Jacques Rancière during a conference at the Universidad Internacional de Andalucía, in Seville, Spain, 2006

life and work

Early years

Jacques Rancière, born in Algiers in 1940, studied philosophy at the Ecole Normale Supérieure from 1960 to 1965 , where he received the Diplôme d'études supérieures in 1963 with a thesis on the young Marx and the aggregation in 1964. From 1964 he took part in Louis Althusser's seminar on Capital , from which a first contribution, also translated into German, emerged: “The Concept of Critique and the Critique of Political Economy”. After a year as a philosophy teacher at a Paris high school, Ranciére began in 1966 with a doctoral thesis on Feuerbach at the CNRS, which he broke off in 1968. Chosen by Michel Foucault , Rancière was appointed assistant at the University of Paris VIII (then in Vincennes) in 1968. At this university, where he became Maître-Assistant in 1972, Maître de Conference in 1985 and Professor in 1990, Rancière taught, apart from a few visiting professors, until his retirement in 2000.

After breaking with Althusser in 1968, he worked primarily as an activist in a Maoist group. In 1972, however, Rancière, under the influence of Foucault, withdrew into the archives. This historical research led to the dissertation in 1980, which was published under the title “La Nuit des Prolétaires: Archives du rêve ouvrier”.

From 1986 to 1992, Rancière also served as program director at the Collège International de Philosophie.

La Mésentente / The disagreement

La Mésentente (1995), Rancière's most influential text to date, represents an attempt to think of politics as a chain of subjectivizations , as a practice of dispute that begins in the Greek polis . The struggle between rich and poor, between the powerful and those excluded from power is therefore not a problem that has to be resolved through politics, but politics itself. In that the social share of the disinterested (“la part des sans-part”) takes its place Becomes aware of his position and stands up for his rights, social structures are revised. This means u. a. also a rejection of the ostensible consensus of a media-based politics.

The term police , as Rancière defines it, is also important , namely as a direct contrast to politics, as a definition of inequality in the distribution of social shares: it defines the relationships between the subjects, denies the existence of those who have no shares, the existence of something immeasurable . Political dispute ( dissent ) is the break with such an order and thus politics in the sense of Rancière.

Work on aesthetics

Since the early 1990s, Rancière has primarily been concerned with questions of aesthetics ; he writes u. a. Texts on painting and film theory . His starting point here is a criticism of the principle of representation as it is based on Aristotle 's concept of mimesis . With the emergence of modern literature in the 19th century, according to Rancière, there was also a change in perception, an emancipation of the written word from any representation function. It is in this area of ​​tension that he locates the emergence of the medium of film, which is both representation and de-hierarchized discourse. He criticizes Gilles Deleuze's film theory and considers its separation of the image of movement and time to be untenable.

Le destin des images (2003) underlines the sensual quality of images: they are not only depiction, but can also be experienced directly, not subject to any order. It is precisely these considerations that help Rancière gain popularity in theater and media studies . For example, Hans-Thies Lehmann, as a theoretician of post-dramatic theater, repeatedly refers to Jacques Rancière in his essays.

See also

Fonts

Monographs

  • Le concept de critique et la critique de l´économie politique dès 'Manuscripts' de 1844 au 'Capital.' Maspéro, Paris 1965
    • German: The concept of criticism and the criticism of political economy. Merve, Berlin 1972
Louis Althusser et al .: Read the capital . Westphalian steam boat, Münster 2015 ISBN 978-3-89691-952-6
  • La leçon d'Althusser . Gallimard, Paris 1974
  • Against academic Marxism. Merve, Berlin 1975, ISBN 3-920986-72-5
  • La Nuit des prolétaires. Archives du rêve ouvrier . Fayard, Paris 1981, ISBN 2-213-00985-6
    • German: The night of the proletarians. Archives of the Workers' Dream . Turia + Kant, Vienna 2013, ISBN 978-3-85132-699-4
  • Le Philosophe et ses pauvres . Fayard, Paris 1983; again Flammarion, Paris 2010, ISBN 2-08-123537-4
  • Louis-Gabriel Gauny. Le philosophe plébéien . Presses Universitaires, Vincennes 1985
  • Le maître ignorant. Cinq leçons sur l'emancipation intellectuelle . Fayard, Paris 1987
    • German: The ignorant teacher. Five lessons on intellectual emancipation . 2nd Edition. Passagen, Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-85165-885-9 .
  • Aux bords du politique . Osiris, Paris 1990
  • Courts voyages au pays du peuple. Le Seuil, Paris 1990, ISBN 0-8047-3682-0
  • Les Noms de l'histoire. Essai de poétique du savoir. Le Seuil, Paris 1992
    • German: The names of the story . Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1994; again: the words of history. Translated from Eva Moldenhauer , Walther König, 2015
  • La Mésentente: Politique et philosophie . Galilée, Paris 1995
  • Mallarmé, la politique de la sirène . Hachette, Paris 1996
  • together with Alain Badiou : Politics of Truth. Turia + Kant, Vienna 1996, 2nd edition 2013 ISBN 978-3-85132-489-1
  • together with Jean-Louis Comolli : Arrêt sur histoire. Editions du Center Pompidou, Paris 1997
  • La chair des mots: politiques de l`écriture. Galilée, Paris 1998
  • La parôle muette. Essai sur les contradictions de la literature . Hachette, Paris 1998
    • German: The silent language. Essay on the contradictions of literature. Diaphanes, Zurich 2010, ISBN 978-3-03734-111-7
  • Le Partage du sensible: Esthétique et politique. La Fabrique, Paris 2000
    • German: The division of the sensual. The politics of art and its paradoxes. b_books, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-933557-67-4
  • L'inconscient esthétique. Galilée, Paris 2001
  • La fable cinématographique. Le Seuil, Paris 2001
  • Les scenes du peuple. Horlieu, Lyon 2003
  • Le destin des images. La Fabrique, Paris 2003
  • Malaise dans l'esthétique. Galilée, Paris 2004
  • Si l'art résiste à quelque chose? 2004
  • La haine de la democratie. La Fabrique, Paris 2005
  • Chronique des temps consensuels. Le Seuil, Paris 2005
  • Politique de la litterature . Galilée, Paris 2007
  • La parole ouvrière . New edition La Fabrique, Paris 2007
  • Ten theses on politics . Diaphanes, Zurich 2008, ISBN 978-3-03734-031-8
  • Le spectateur émancipé . La Fabrique, Paris 2008, ISBN 2-913372-80-5
  • Et tant pis pour les gens fatigués . Entretiens, Amsterdam 2009, ISBN 2-35480-056-8
    • German:
  1. And the tired are unlucky. Interviews 1976-1999. Passagen, Vienna 2012 ISBN 978-3-7092-0021-6
  2. The words of dissent. Interviews 2000-2002. Passagen, Vienna 2012 ISBN 978-3-7092-0055-1
  3. The people and their fictions. Interviews 2003-2005. Passagen, Vienna 2013 ISBN 978-3-7092-0073-5
  4. The invention of the possible. Interviews 2006-2009. Passagen, Vienna 2014 ISBN 978-3-7092-0120-6
  5. The method of equality. Conversation with Laurent Jeanpierre and Dork Zabunyan. Passagen, Vienna 2014 ISBN 978-3-7092-0141-1
  • Moments politiques, interventions 1977-2009 . Diaphanes, Zurich 2011, ISBN 978-3-03734-146-9
  • Les écarts du cinéma . La Fabrique, Paris 2011
  • Aesthesis. Scènes du régime esthétique de l'art. Galilée, Paris 2011, ISBN 978-2-7186-0852-5
  • The lost thread. Essays on Modern Fiction. Translated by Richard Steurer-Boulard. Passagen, Vienna 2015, ISBN 978-3-7092-0160-2
  • Modern Times - Essays on Temporality in Arts and Politics . Multimedijalni institut, Zagreb 2017, ISBN 978-953-7372-31-6

editor

  • together with Alain Faure: La parole ouvrière, 1830/1851. Paris 1976
  • L'empire du sociologue. La Découverte, Paris 1984
  • Esthétiques du peuple. La Découverte, Paris 1985

Essays

  • Who Is the Subject of the Rights of Man? In: South Atlantic Quarterly 103 (2004), No. 2/3, pp. 297-310
    • German: Who is the subject of human rights? In: Francesca Raimondi, Christoph Menke (ed.): The revolution of human rights. Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-518-29588-5
  • Le concept d'anachronisme et la verité de l'historien In: L'inactuel, No. 6, autumn 1996, pp. 53–68
    • German: The concept of anachronism and the historian's truth . In: Eva Kernbauer (ed.): Art history. Historicity and anachrony in contemporary art. Fink, Paderborn 2015, pp. 33–50
  • L'Éternité par les astres . Préface de Jacques Rancière. Les Impressions nouvelles, 2012
  • The fiction at a standstill In: kultuRRevolution. journal for applied discourse theory 75, 2/2018, pp. 31–38.

Interviews

  • Politics and Aesthetics. In conversation with Peter Engelmann. Passagen, Vienna 2016, ISBN 978-3-7092-0142-8

literature

  • Nabila Abbas and Aristotelis Agridopoulos (eds.): Democracy - Aesthetics - Emancipation. Jacques Rancière's transdisciplinary thinking (special issue ), in: kultuRRevolution. Journal for Applied Discourse Theory , No. 75, 2/2018, ISSN  0723-8088
  • Aristotelis Agridopoulos: Philosophical reflections on post-democracy with Jacques Rancière . In: "Political Education in Post-Democracy." Edited by the German Association for Civic Education, DVpB, Lower Saxony Regional Group. Journal "Politics Teaching", 30, 1, 2015, pp. 5–10 ISSN  0930-2107
  • Friedrich Balke, Harun Maye, Leander Scholz (eds.): Aesthetic Regime around 1800 . Wilhelm Fink, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-7705-4743-2
  • Antonia Birnbaum: The indefinite equality. Jacques Rancière's design for an aesthetic of politics . In: Joseph Jurt (Ed.): From Michel Serres to Julia Kristeva . Freiburg 1999, pp. 193-209
  • Oliver Davis: Jacques Rancière. An introduction . Turia + Kant, Vienna / Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-85132-737-3
  • Peter Engelmann (Ed.): Philosophies: Conversations with Foucault, Derrida, Lyotard, Ricoeur, Lévinas, Descombes, Axelos, Glucksmann, Rancière, Serres . Passages, Vienna 1985
  • Oliver Davis (Ed.): Jacques Rancière . Polity Press, Cambridge 2010, ISBN 978-0-7456-4654-1
  • Oliver Davis: Rancière now. Current perspectives on Jacques Rancière . Polity Press, Cambridge 2013, ISBN 978-0-7456-6257-2
  • Roberto De Gaetano (Ed.): Politica delle immagini. Su Jacques Rancière. Pellegrini, Cosenza 2011, ISBN 978-88-8101-740-9 (ital.)
  • Uwe Hebekus, Jan Völker: New philosophies of the political to introduce . Junius, Hamburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-88506-663-7
  • Nick Hewitt Badiou, Balibar, Rancière: Re-thinking Emancipation . Continuum, London 2007, ISBN 978-0-8264-9861-8
  • Andreas Hetzel: The proportion of those who do not participate. Jacques Rancière's attempt to redefine political philosophy . German Journal for Philosophy, 2, 2004, pp. 322-326 ISSN  0012-1045
  • Jens Kastner , Ruth Sonderegger (eds.): Pierre Bourdieu and Jacques Rancière. Think emancipatory practice . Turia + Kant, Vienna / Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-85132-754-0 .
  • Ines Kleesattel: Political Art Criticism. Between Rancière and Adorno . Turia + Kant, Vienna / Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-85132-824-0 .
  • Thomas Linpinsel, Il-Tschung Lim (Ed.): Equality, Politics and Police: Jacques Rancière and the Social Sciences. Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2018, ISBN 978-3-658-20670-3
  • Charlotte Nordmann : Bourdieu / Rancière. La politique entre sociologie et philosophie . Éditions Amsterdam, Paris 2006, ISBN 2-915547-23-8
  • Drehli Robnik, Thomas Hübel, Siegfried Mattl (eds.): The controversy picture. On film, history and politics with Jacques Rancière . With two texts by J. Rancière ("The Historicity of Films" and "The New Fictions of Evil"). Turia + Kant, Vienna / Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-85132-589-8
  • Drehli Robnik: Film without a reason. Film theory, postal politics and dissent with Jacques Rancière . Turia + Kant, Vienna / Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-85132-618-5
  • Mark Robson (Ed.): Jacques Rancière: Aesthetics, Politics, Philosophy . Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh 2004 (= Paragraph 28: 1.) ISSN  0264-8334
  • Christian Ruby: L'interruption. Jacques Rancière et la politique . La Fabrique, Paris 2009
  • Leander Scholz : Aesthetics and Reason. Jacques Rancières political philosophy , in: Dietmar Kammerer (ed.): Vom Publicum. The public in art . Transcript, Bielefeld 2012 (= Image, 19) pp. 197-221
  • Nora Sternfeld : The educational disproportion. Teaching and learning with Rancière, Gramsci and Foucault . Turia + Kant, Vienna / Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-85132-530-0
  • Dietmar Wetzel, Thomas J. Claviez: On the topicality of Jacques Rancière. Introduction to his work . Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2016, ISBN 978-3-531-16700-8
  • Erik M. Vogt: Between Sensology and Aesthetic Dissent. Essays on Mario Perniola and Jacqques Rancière . Turia + Kant, Vienna - Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-85132-929-2
  • Erik M. Vogt, Michael Manfé (ed.): Jacques Rancière and the literature . Turia + Kant, Vienna / Berlin 2020. ISBN 978-3-85132-971-1

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ From Aesthetics to Politics: Rancière, Kant and Deleuze , by Katharine Wolfe, accessed June 11, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Rancière, Jacques
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH June 10, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Algiers