Understanding Rancière, Understanding

The contemporary philosopher Jacques Rancière has become over the last two decades one of the most influential voices in literary, art historical, and film criticism. His work reexamines the divisions that have defined our understanding of modernity, such as art and politics, representation and abstraction, and literature and philosophy. Working across these divisions, he engages the historical roots of modernism in the nineteenth century, uncovering forgotten texts in the archive that trouble our notions of intellectual history. The contributors to Understanding Rancière, Understanding Modernism engage with the multiplicity of Rancière's thought through close readings of his texts, through comparative readings with other philosophers, and through an engagement with modernist works of art and literature. The final section of the volume includes an extended glossary of the most important terms used by Rancière, which will be a valuable resource for experts and students alike.

Patrick M. Bray is Associate Professor of French at the Ohio State University, USA. He is the author of The Novel Map: Space and Subjectivity in Nineteenth-Century French Fiction (2013) and co-editor of Building the Louvre: Architectures of Politics and Art (2014).

Introduction
Patrick M. Bray, The Ohio State University, USA

Part I – Conceptualizing Rancière
1. Mallarmé, politique de la sirène
Bruno Bosteels, Cornell University, USA
2. 'The Democratic Torrent': Politics of the Social in Rancière's Hatred of Democracy
Emily Apter, New York University, USA
3. Écarts du cinéma
Tom Conley, Harvard University, USA
4. Film Fables
Margaret Flinn, The Ohio State University, USA
5. Proletarian Nights
Bettina Lerner, City College CUNY, USA
6. The Ignorant Schoolmaster
Leon Sachs, University of Kentucky, USA
7. The Emancipated Spectator
Cary Hollinshead-Strick, American University of Paris, France
8. Silent Speech
Giuseppina Mecchia, University of Pittsburgh, USA

Part II – Rancière and Aesthetics
9. Staging a conversation between Rancière and feminist theory
Tina Chanter, Kingston University London, UK
10. Reassessing Rancière and Video Art
Tim Murray, Cornell University, USA
11. Rancière and Proust
Suzanne Guerlac, University of California, Berkeley
12. Rancière's critique of modernism
Alison Ross, Monash University, Australia
13. Laboring Arms and the Floating Gaze: Rancière's New Sensorium
Marina Van Zuylen, Bard College, USA
14. Rancière and Latin American Modernism
Silvia López, Carleton College, USA
15. Rancière and Virginia Woolf
Ewa Ziarek, SUNY Buffalo, USA
16. On Rancière's Opposition of Politics and Police: Meaning and Consequences
Étienne Balibar, Columbia University, USA, and Université de Paris-Ouest Nanterre, France

Part III – Glossary of Key Terms

Index

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