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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- NOTE ON SOURCES -- Introduction: What Is an Intervention? Metaphilosophical Critique and the Reinvention of Contemporary Theory -- Section I: History -- 1 How Do We Think the Present? From Ontology of Contemporary Reality to Ontology without Being -- 2 The Right of Philosophy and the Facts of History: Foucault, Derrida, Descartes -- 3 Aesthetic Revolution and Modern Democracy: Rancière's Historiography -- Section II: Politics -- 4 Is Difference a Value in Itself? Critique of a Metaphilosophical Axiology -- 5 Castoriadis and the Tradition of Radical Critique -- 6 The Hatred of Rancière: Democracy in the History of Political Cultures -- Section III: Aesthetics -- 7 The Art of Talking Past One Another: The Badiou-Rancière Debate -- 8 The Hermeneutics of Art and Political History in Rancière -- 9 The Forgotten Political Art Par Excellence? Architecture, Design and the Social Sculpting of the Body Politic -- Bibliography -- Index

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Toward a Counter-History of the Present -- Chapter 1. A Specter Is Haunting Globalization -- Chapter 2. Are We Really Living in a Technological Era? -- Chapter 3. What Is the Use of Democracy? Urgency of an Inappropriate Question -- Afterword. Taking Charge of the Meanings and Directions of History -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

In popular thought, the youth and student movements of France May 1968 have been linked with the thinkers of what is known as French theory. Gabriel Rockhill considers the actual, less-than-revolutionary actions of these popular philosophers in the student revolts, then turns our attention to a deeper question: Who benefits from drawing these tenuous connections?

Historicizing untimeliness / Kristin RossThe lessons of Jacques Rancière : knowledge and power after the storm / Alain Badiou -- Sophisticated continuities and historical discontinuities, or, why not protagoras? / Eric Méchoulan -- The classics and critical theory in postmodern France : the case of Jacques Rancière / Giuseppina Mecchia -- Rancière and metaphysics / Jean-Luc Nancy -- What is political philosophy? contextual notes / Etienne Balibar -- Rancière in South Carolina / Todd May -- Political agency and the ambivalence of the sensible / Yves Citton -- Staging equality : Rancière's theatrocracy and the limits of anarchic equality / Peter Hallward -- Rancière's leftism, or politics and its discontents / Bruno Bosteels -- Jacques Rancière's ethical turn and the thinking of discontents / Solange Guénoun -- The politics of aesthetics : political history and the hermeneutics of art / Gabriel Rockhill -- Cinema and its discontents / Tom Conley -- Politicizing art in Rancière and Deleuze : the case of postcolonial literature / Raji Vallury -- Impossible speech acts : Jacques Rancière's Erich Auerbach / Andrew parker -- Style indirect libre / James swenson -- The method of equality : an answer to some questions -- Jacques Rancière

It is no mistake that XYZ. In this interview with Zhao Dingqi of World Socialism Studies, Gabriel Rockhill dives deep into the CIA's campaign to propagate thinly veiled imperialist and capitalist ideology through the institutions of the Western left intelligentsia—and how this state of affairs continues among intellectuals to this day.

The idea of ""culture"" has become central to intellectual debates since at least the end of the 1970s, with the reemergence of longstanding cultural issues becoming an indispensible part of moral and political critique. Additionally, the meaning of culture has expanded beyond its earlier, anthropological meaning to include issues of ethnicity, race, religion, gender, and sexual orientation. Whether informing arguments about a ""clash of civilizations"" or underscoring the importance of ""mainstream multiculturalism, "" inflated notions of culture are ubiquitous, and their prevale

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Editor's Introduction: Eros of Inquiry: An AperÃu of Castoriadis' Life and Work -- PART I: POSTSCRIPT ON INSIGNIFICANCE -- Preface: Cornelius, Essential Dissident -- 1 No God, No Caesar, No Tribune! . . .: Cornelius Castoriadis Interviewed -- PART II: DIALOGUES -- Preface: Introduction to Discussants -- 2 Rejoinders: Facing Modernity: Cornelius Castoriadis in Dialogue with Octavio Paz -- 3 The Meaning of Psychoanalysis: Cornelius Castoriadis in Dialogue with Jean-Luc Donnet -- 4 Life and Creation: Cornelius Castoriadis in Dialogue with Francisco Varela -- 5 The Limits of Formalization: Cornelius Castoriadis in Dialogue with Alain Connes -- 6 Breaking the Closure: Cornelius Castoriadis in Dialogue with Robert Legros -- Selected Bibliography of Castoriadis' Books in English -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z