Name: The Time of the Landscape: On the Origins of the Aesthetic Revolution (in French)
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Author: Jacques Rancière
ISBN: 9781509548149

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The Time of the Landscape: On the Origins of the Aesthetic Revolution (in French)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Jacques Rancière

Translated by

Emiliano Battista

Publisher

Polity Press

Language

French

Pages

120

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

21.8 x 14.0 x 1.5 cm

Weight

0.28 kg.

ISBN13

9781509548149

Edition No.

Synopsis "The Time of the Landscape: On the Origins of the Aesthetic Revolution (in French)"

The time of the landscape is not the time when people started describing gardens, mountains and lakes in poems or representing them in works of art: it is the time when the landscape imposed itself as a specific object of thought. It is the time when both the harmony of arranged gardens and the disharmony of wild nature led to a revolution in the criteria of the beautiful and in the meaning of the word "art." It coincided with the birth of aesthetics, understood as a regime for shaping how art is seen and thought, and also with the French Revolution, understood as a revolution in the very idea of what binds together a human community. The time of the landscape is the time when the conjunction of these two upheavals brought into focus, however hazily, a common horizon: that of a revolution that no longer concerns only the laws of the state or the norms of art, but the very forms of sensible experience. This brilliant and wide-ranging book will be of interest to students and scholars in philosophy, literature, the visual arts, and the humanities generally, and to anyone interested in critical theory and philosophy.

Jacques Rancière

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Jacques Rancière (born in 1940) is a French philosopher known for his studies in aesthetics, politics, and education. He became known as the co-author of Reading Capital (1974), where he criticized the positions of his former teacher, Louis Althusser. Throughout his career, he has developed a philosophy focused on equality and intellectual emancipation.

Among his most influential works are The Ignorant Schoolmaster (1987), where he explores emancipatory pedagogy; Disagreement (1995), an analysis of politics and language; and The Emancipated Spectator (2008), which questions passivity in art and politics. His work falls within the philosophical genre and has influenced various fields such as political theory, pedagogy, and aesthetics.

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