The Politics of Aesthetics
Bloomsbury Academic · Print & ebook · June 27, 2013
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- Genres
- Aesthetics, Art & Politics, Art Criticism & Ideas
- Published
- Bloomsbury Academic, June 27, 2013
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The Politics of Aesthetics rethinks the relationship between art and politics, reclaiming "aesthetics" from the narrow confines it is often reduced to. Jacques Rancière reveals its intrinsic link to politics by analysing what they both have in common: the delimitation of the visible and the invisible, the audible and the inaudible, the thinkable and the unthinkable, the possible and the impossible.
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Presented as a set of inter-linked interviews, The Politics of Aesthetics provides the most comprehensive introduction to Rancière's work to date, ranging across the history of art and politics from the Greek polis to the aesthetic revolution of the modern age. Available now in the Bloomsbury Revelations series 10 years after its original publication, The Politics of Aesthetics includes an afterword by Slavoj Zizek, an interview for the English edition, a glossary of technical terms and an extensive bibliography.
Theory, Tightly Wound
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- a clean entry into a knotty debate
- a sustained, theory-forward read
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- French criticism with social-theory bite
- ideas that reward slow, attentive reading
Where it sits
| Aesthetics | 56% |
|---|---|
| Art & Politics | 48% |
| Art Criticism & Ideas | 36% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Philosophy
- Authors
- Jacques Rancière, Gabriel Rockhill
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Academic
- Published
- June 27, 2013
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Reading lane
- Philosophy