Jacques Rancière hat die Frage der Gleichheit in den Mittelpunkt der Kunstbetrachtung gestellt und damit international gerade an Kunsthochschulen Furore gemacht. Volkmar Mühleis widmet sich eingehend Rancières ästhetischem Denken und befragt es erstmals kritisch im Rahmen der Kunstpraxis. Dabei zeigt sich zum einen die besondere Qualität von Rancières Ansatz für den Kunstdiskurs -- der stets die Freiheit, aber kaum ihre Bedingung, die Gleichheit, verhandelte --, zum andern aber auch seine Schwächen. So operiert Rancière mit einem medialen Begriff, der kaum den Anforderungen technologischer Kritik heutzutage standhält. Wenn er ästhetische Erfahrung in Anspruch nimmt, ohne zu klären, was Erfahrung hier im Einzelnen heisst, so verbleibt er seinem emanzipatorischen Gedankengut nach in einer rationalistischen Tradition. Mit Blick auf die Schriften von Bernard Stiegler, Bernhard Waldenfels und Käte Meyer-Drawe zeigt Volkmar Mühleis, wie diese besondere Qualität von Rancières ästhetischem Denken auf ganz andere Art die gegenwärtige Debatte bereichern kann
The following text emerges as a result of accepting the challenge that Jacques Ranciere's issued in one of his texts, where the French philosopher, echoing Jean Borreil's words in L'Artiste Roi, describes the philosophical situation today as the one that takes a stand against Plato. Therefore, the challenge consists of suggesting an interpretation of his political, pedagogical and artistic theory as the places of Ranciere's thought that develop within an implicit debate with and against Plato. ; El siguiente texto surge como consecuencia de aceptar un reto lanzado por el propio Jacques Rancière en unos de sus textos. En dicho texto, el filósofo francés, haciéndose eco de unas palabras de Jean Borreil en L'Artiste Roi, caracteriza la situación filosófica actual como aquella que se desarrolla posicionándose frente a Platón. La tarea que realizaremos en este texto consistirá en abordar la obra de Rancière desde este prisma, preguntándonos en qué medida elige a Platón contra Platón. El reto, por tanto, es proponer una lectura de su teoría política, pedagógica y artística como aquellos lugares del pensamiento rancierano en los que se desarrollan en un debate implícito con y contra Platón.
GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9780748635863');This is the first single-authored book in any language devoted entirely to the thought of Jacques Rancière. It focuses on his central political idea that a democratic politics emerges from the presupposition of equality. Todd May examines and extends this presupposition, offering a framework for understanding it, placing it in the current political context, and showing how it challenges traditional political philosophy and opens up neglected political paths.May aims to show that Rancière's view offers both hope and perspective for those who seek to think about and engage in progressive political action.Key FeaturesOffers a thorough discussion of Rancière's concept of equalityProvides an ethical framework in which to ground his politicsShows why Rancière is crucial for political reflection todayBoth translated and untranslated works are referred to"
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)
This proposal considers analyzing certain meanings that the expression politics of fiction has in its double meaning in the literary thought of Jacques Rancière. The aim is to draw the conceptual map of a contradictory thought, as literature itself, that escapes the logic reason / action. I will attend the two dimensions in which this statement would be working and that I consider affect what would be the strong core of his thought, that is to say, to the concept of equality. The politics of fiction in Rancière is, at the same time, an aesthetic of equality. In this way, we can answer the question that lies at the bottom of this double statement, and that rests on the perplexity that its concept of equality awakens: What does it do, how does it work, in short, how does his concept of equality act? ; Este trabajo propone analizar los sentidos que la expresión política de la ficción tiene en su doble acepción en el pensamiento literario de Jacques Rancière. Para tal fin, voy a atender a dos dimensiones en las que estaría funcionando este enunciado y que considero afectan a lo que sería el núcleo fuerte de su pensamiento, es decir, al concepto de igualdad. La política de la ficción en Rancière es, al tiempo, una estética de la igualdad. De este modo, podremos responder a la pregunta que se sitúa en el fondo de este enunciado doble, y que descansa sobre la perplejidad que su concepto de igualdad despierta: ¿Qué hace, cómo funciona, en definitiva, cómo actúa su concepto de igualdad?This proposal considers analyzing certain meanings that the expression politics of fiction has in its double meaning in the literary thought of Jacques Rancière. The aim is to draw the conceptual map of a contradictory thought, as literature itself, that escapes the logic reason / action. I will attend the two dimensions in which this statement would be working and that I consider affect what would be the strong core of his thought, that is to say, to the concept of equality. The politics of fiction in Rancière is, at the same time, an aesthetic of equality. In this way, we can answer the question that lies at the bottom of this double statement, and that rests on the perplexity that its concept of equality awakens: What does it do, how does it work, in short, how does his concept of equality act?
Jacques Rancière gilt als einer der einflussreichsten französischen Philosophen der Gegenwart, in dessen gesamtem Werk immer wieder das Motiv der radikalen Kritik an der Sozialwissenschaft in Szene gesetzt wird. In dem Sammelband werden zahlreiche Denkmotive des französischen Philosophen aus einer genuin sozialwissenschaftlichen Perspektive aufgegriffen, weitergedacht und kritisiert, wobei in den einzelnen Artikeln konkrete Forschungsperspektiven mit Rancière entwickelt, methodologische Überlegungen im Anschluss an Rancière vorgestellt, gesellschaftstheoretische Reflexionen vor dem Hintergrund der Kritik des Philosophen unternommen sowie Aspekte seines politischen Denkens in die politische Theorie integriert werden. Aber auch sozialwissenschaftliche Kritik an der Philosophie Rancières findet in den Argumentationen der Autorinnen und Autoren ihren Platz. Somit bietet der Band ein breit gefächertes Spektrum an sozialwissenschaftlichen Anschlüssen an das Denken des französischen Philosophen. Einerseits schließt der Sammelband damit eine Lücke in der sozialwissenschaftlichen Forschung und ist anderseits der erste genuin sozialwissenschaftliche Beitrag in der umfangreichen jüngeren Forschung zum philosophischen Werk Rancières. Die Zielgruppen Studierende und Dozierende der Philosophie, Sozial- und Politikwissenschaften. Die Herausgeber Thomas Linpinsel ist wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Institut für Soziologie der Universität Gießen. Il-Tschung Lim (Dr. phil.) ist Akademischer Rat a. Z. am Forschungsbereich Allgemeiner Gesellschaftsvergleich am Institut für Soziologie der Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen
This paper proposes a conversation between Jacques Rancière and feminist care ethicists. It argues that there are important resonances between these two bodies of scholarship, thanks to their similar indictments of Western hierarchies and binaries, their shared invitation to "blur boundaries" and embrace a politics of "impropriety", and their views on the significance of storytelling/narratives and of the ordinary. Drawing largely on Disagreement, Proletarian Nights, and The Ignorant Schoolmaster: Five Lessons in Intellectual Emancipation, I also indicate that Rancière's work offers crucial and timely insights for care ethicists on the importance of attending to desire and hope in research, the inevitability of conflict in social transformation, and the need to think together the transformation of care work/practices and of dominant social norms.