Egalitarian Moments: From Descartes to RanciereAuthor :
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Published : Thursday 5 November 2015
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Jacques Rancières work has challenged many of the assumptions of contemporary continental philosophy by placing equality at the forefront of emancipatory political thought and aesthetics. Drawing on the claim that egalitarian politics persistently appropriates elements from political philosophy to engage new forms of dissensus, Devin Zane Shaw argues that Rancières work also provides an opportunity to reconsider modern philosophy and aesthetics in light of the question of equality. In Part I, Shaw examines Rancières philosophical debts to the `good sense of Cartesian egalitarianism and the existentialist critique of identity. In Part II, he outlines Rancières critical analyses of Walter Benjamin and Clement Greenberg and offers a reinterpretation of Rancières debate with Alain Badiou in light of the philosophical differences between Schiller and Schelling. From engaging debates about political subjectivity from Descartes to Sartre, to delineating the egalitarian stakes in aesthetics and the philosophy of art from Schiller to Badiou, this book presents a concise tour through a series of egalitarian moments found within the histories of modern philosophy and aesthetics.
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