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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
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| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Jacques Rancière; Andrew Parker; John Drury; Corinne Oster |
| ISBN: | 0822332612 9780822332619 0822332744 9780822332749 |
| OCLC Number: | 203148718 |
| Description: | XXVIII, 247 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Plato's lie The order of the city; The order of discourse Marx's labor The shoemaker and the knight; The production of the proletarian; The revolution conjured away; The risk of art The philosopher and the sociologist The Marxist horizon; The philosopher's wall; The sociologist king |
| Other Titles: | Philosophe et ses pauvres. |
| Responsibility: | Jacques Rancière ; edited and with an introduction by Andrew Parker ; translated by John Drury, Corinne Oster, and Andrew Parker. |
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"Sure to provoke controversy, The Philosopher and His Poor is a virtuoso performance. I can't think of anyone who has pursued the populist premise - the intuition that in this or that situation the grounding of truth or value is to be located in those most dispossessed - with anything approaching Ranciere's degree of articulateness or philosophical sophistication. I predict that this book will become a landmark." Bruce Robbins, author of Feeling Global: Internationalism in Distress "The Philosopher and His Poor is a remarkable work. Jacques Ranciere demonstrates the recurrence throughout the history of western thought of a particular self-constituting move: the freedom and the right to think are premised upon a situating and excluding of those whose task is other than to think, what Ranciere calls 'the poor.'" Derek Attridge, author of The Singularity of Literature Read more...
