4 Is Difference a Value in Itself? Critique of a Metaphilosophical Axiology

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS vii
4. NOTE ON SOURCES viii
5. Introduction: What Is an Intervention? Metaphilosophical Critique and the Reinvention of Contemporary Theory 1
6. Section I: History
7. 1 How Do We Think the Present? From Ontology of Contemporary Reality to Ontology without Being 37
8. 2 The Right of Philosophy and the Facts of History: Foucault, Derrida, Descartes 55
9. 3 Aesthetic Revolution and Modern Democracy: Rancière’s Historiography 100
10. Section II: Politics
11. 4 Is Difference a Value in Itself? Critique of a Metaphilosophical Axiology 117
12. 5 Castoriadis and the Tradition of Radical Critique 139
13. 6 The Hatred of Rancière: Democracy in the History of Political Cultures 165
14. Section III: Aesthetics
15. 7 The Art of Talking Past One Another: The Badiou–Rancière Debate 193
16. 8 The Hermeneutics of Art and Political History in Rancière 214
17. 9 The Forgotten Political Art Par Excellence? Architecture, Design and the Social Sculpting of the Body Politic 243
18. Bibliography 262
19. Index 279