Egalitarian moments : from Descartes to Rancière
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Egalitarian moments : from Descartes to Rancière
（Bloomsbury studies in continental philosophy）
Bloomsbury Academic, 2016
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [187]-199) and index
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Jacques Ranciere's 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 Ranciere's work also provides an opportunity to reconsider modern philosophy and aesthetics in light of the question of equality. In Part I, Shaw examines Ranciere's philosophical debts to the 'good sense' of Cartesian egalitarianism and the existentialist critique of identity. In Part II, he outlines Ranciere's critical analyses of Walter Benjamin and Clement Greenberg and offers a reinterpretation of Ranciere's 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.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Philosophy and Equality
Part I: Subjectivity
Chapter 1: The 'Good Sense' of Cartesian Egalitarianism
1.1. 'a history or, if you prefer, a fable'
1.2. Descartes's Egalitarianism and the Problem of Separation
1.3. The Rationality of a Wrong
1.4. Woman as Other, Woman as Subject
1.5. Toward Collective Egalitarianism
Chapter 2: The Nothingness of Equality: Ranciere's 'Sartrean Existentialism'
2.1. Marked By Sartrean Existentialism
2.2. The Politics of Equality
2.3. Between the Practico-inert and the Party
2.4. Subjects of Contingency
2.5. The Politics of Impossible Identification
Part II: Aesthetics
Chapter 3: Modernity, Modernism, and Aesthetic Equality
3.1. Disagreement and Misunderstanding
3.2. From Mimesis to Aesthetics
3.2.1. Breaking with Mimetic Norms
3.2.2. Mute Speech and Literary Equality
3.3. Artistic Autonomy and Sociology in Greenberg
3.4. Benjamin's 'Archaeomodernism'
3.4.1. The Politics of Art and Technology
3.4.2. Archaeomodernism and Metapolitics
3.5. Fragmentary Emancipation, Common Sense, and Aesthetic Equality
Chapter 4: Aesthetics, Inaesthetics, and the Platonist Regime of Art
4.1. The Return from Exile
4.2. Between Aesthetics and Inaesthetics
4.3. Between Aesthetic Education and the Absolute
4.3.1. Aesthetic Emancipation and Policing
4.3.2. Schiller's Aesthetic Freedom
4.3.3. Schelling on Artistic Production and Practical Reason
4.4. Monuments and Micropolitics
4.5. Heterotopias: One World Divides Into Two
Conclusion: The Politics of Aisthesis
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