12. The Politics of Aesthetics: Political History and the Hermeneutics of Art

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction 1
5. Part One: History
6. 1. Historicizing Untimeliness 13
7. 2. The Lessons of Jacques Rancière: Knowledge and Power after the Storm 30
8. 3. Sophisticated Continuities and Historical Discontinuities, Or, Why Not Protagoras? 55
9. 4. The Classics and Critical Theory in Postmodern France: The Case of Jacques Rancière 67
10. 5. Jacques Rancière and Metaphysics 83
11. Part Two: Politics
12. 6. What Is Political Philosophy? Contextual Notes 93
13. 7. Rancière in South Carolina 105
14. 8. Political Agency and the Ambivalence of the Sensible 120
15. 9. Staging Equality: Rancière’s Theatrocracy and the Limits of Anarchic Equality 140
16. 10. Rancière’s Leftism, Or, Politics and Its Discontents 158
17. 11. Jacques Rancière’s Ethical Turn and the Thinking of Discontents 176
18. Part Three: Aesthetics
19. 12. The Politics of Aesthetics: Political History and the Hermeneutics of Art 193
20. 13. Cinema and Its Discontents 216
21. 14. Politicizing Art in Rancière and Deleuze: The Case of Postcolonial Literature 229
22. 15. Impossible Speech Acts: Jacques Rancière’s Erich Auerbach 249
23. 16. Style indirect libre 258
24. Afterword The Method of Equality: An Answer to Some Questions 273
25. Notes 289
26. Bibliography 327
27. Index 341
28. Contributors and Translators 355