Throughout his career, shaped by a notable collaboration with Louis Althusser, Jacques Rancière has continually unsettled political discourse, particularly by examining its relationship to aesthetics. Like Michel Foucault, he broke with his many of...
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Throughout his career, shaped by a notable collaboration with Louis Althusser, Jacques Rancière has continually unsettled political discourse, particularly by examining its relationship to aesthetics. Like Michel Foucault, he broke with his many of his predecessors to upend dominant twentieth-century historical narratives and critical theories. Often overlooked in the canon of his works, Mute Speech contains the critical seeds of Rancière's most provocative assertions, challenging the intellectual orthodoxy that had come to define the nature of art and representation.Arguing that art is neithe
Contents; Introduction: Through the Looking Glass; Introduction: From One Literature to An Other; PART 1: From Restricted to General Poetics; Chapter 1: From Representation to Expression; Chapter 2: From the Book of Stone to the Book of Life; Chapter 3: The Book of Life and the Expression of Society; PART 2: From Generalized to the Mute Letter; Chapter 4: From the Poetry of the Future to the Poetry of the Past; Chapter 5: The Book in Pieces; Chapter 6: The Fable of the Letter; Chapter 7: Writing at War; PART 3: The Contradictions of the Work of Literature; Chapter 8: The Book in Style
Chapter 9: The Writing of the IdeaChapter 10: Artifice, Madness, the Work; Conclusion: A Skeptical Art; Notes;
