Name: Uncertain Times
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Author: Jacques Rancière
ISBN: 9781509558674

Type

Physical Book

Author

Jacques Rancière

Translated by

Andrew Brown

Publisher

Polity Press

Language

English

Pages

154

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

22.3 x 14.1 x 1.9 cm

Weight

0.33 kg.

ISBN13

9781509558674

Edition No.

Synopsis "Uncertain Times"

The global triumph of democracy was announced thirty years ago, promising an age of consensus in which the dispassionate consideration of objective problems would give birth to a world at peace. Today, these grand hopes lie in ruins, and the era touted as new has turned out to be remarkably similar to the old order. To understand why this might be so, we need to examine the nature of the consensus itself, which is not the peace that it promised but rather the map of a territory on which new forms of warfare are being waged. The objective reality that imposed itself at the end of the 1990s was an absolutized and globalized capitalism which has produced ever more inequality, exclusion and hate. In this book Jacques Rancière delivers a frank and piercing critique of the globalized capitalist consensus. The invasion of Iraq, the riots on Capitol Hill and the rise of the European far right all attest to the true nature of this consensus, as does the current state-sanctioned racism which exploits the disenchanted progressive tradition and is led by an intelligentsia that claims to be left-wing. At the same time, Rancière praises the dynamism of social movements which affirm the power of the assembly of equals and its capacity for worldmaking: autonomous protest collectives have proven themselves capable of opening breaches in the consensual order and challenging the post-1989 system of domination.

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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