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Jacques Rancière
(b.1940) is a French philosopher and emeritus professor of philosophy at the University of Paris-VIII (St. Denis). His works include Reading Capital (1968), with Louis Althusser; The Nights of Labor: The Workers' Dream in Nineteenth-Century France (1989); The Politics of Aesthetics: The distribution of the sensible (2004); Hatred of democracy (2006).
Eurozine Articles
The disposal of democracy
Interview with Jacques Rancière
While the western democratic system still serves a prototypical function for the rest of the world, internally it is faced with a range of challenges. The most serious of these is an attack from a power elite that has nominated itself the "true guardian of democratic values". [more]
Our police order: What can be said, seen, and done
An interview with French philosopher Jacques Rancière about aesthetics, his distinction between "being political" and the "police order", the media as arena of liberation, and about those who cannot make their voices heard. [more]