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Tests and exams are more or less unquestioned parts of academic life. In his book on the "ignorant schoolmaster", the French educator Joseph Jacotot, Jacques Rancière argues for a radical critique of the disciplinary effects of these instruments of state education and thereby also rejects on anarchist grounds all progressive attempts of educational reform. In this early text, he already fully formulates the principle of "axiomatic equality", which will play a fundamental role in his later writings. My paper reconstructs Rancière's position, partly by tracing it back to its Foucauldian roots, and argues that although it is too spontaneist and thus voluntarist, Rancière's intervention poses an important challenge for every reflection on critical educational practice today.

"Tests and exams are more or less unquestioned parts of academic life. In his book on the 'ignorant schoolmaster', the French educator Joseph Jacotot, Jacques Rancière argues for a radical critique of the disciplinary effects of these instruments of state education and thereby also rejects on anarchist grounds all progressive attempts of educational reform. In this early text, he already fully formulates the principle of 'axiomatic equality', which will play a fundamental role in his later writings. The author's paper reconstructs Rancière's position, partly by tracing it back to its Foucauldian roots, and argues that although it is too spontaneist and thus voluntarist, Rancière's intervention poses an important challenge for every reflection on critical educational practice today." (author's abstract)

In this essay, I propose a mutually constructive reading of the work of Jacques Rancière and Jean-Paul Sartre. On the one hand, I argue that Rancière's egalitarian political thought owes several important conceptual debts to Sartre's Being and Nothingness, especially in his use of the concepts of freedom, contingency and facticity. These concepts play a dual role in Rancière's thought. First, he appropriates them to show how the formation of subjectivity through freedom is a dynamic that introduces new ways of speaking, being and doing, instead of being a mode of assuming an established identity. Second, Rancière uses these concepts to demonstrate the contingency of any situation or social order, a contingency that is the possibility of egalitarian praxis. On the other hand, I also argue that reading Sartre with Rancière makes possible the reconstruction of Sartre's project within the horizon of freedom and equality rather than that of authenticity. ; Peer reviewed ; Final article published. ; Jean-Paul Sartre ; Politics ; Contingency ; Equality ; Jacques Ranciere

El artículo pretende realizar una presentación de la idea de estética que Rancière propone, a través de una serie de conceptos como 'régimen estético', 'estética primera' o 'reparto de lo sensible'. En este sentido, el artículo sostiene que en dicho léxico se juega una idea particular de la estética y del quehacer artístico ; The article tries to make a presentation of the idea of aesthetic Rancière propose, through a series of concepts such as aesthetic regime, aesthetics first or distribution of the sensible. In this sense, the article argues that the lexicon contains a particular idea of the aesthetic and the artistic work