Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: What is film-philosophy?
- I WHAT IS CINEMA?
- II POLITICS OF THE CINEMATIC CENTURY
- III CINEMATIC NATURE
- 23 Raymond Bellour
- 24 Christian Metz
- 25 Julia Kristeva
- 26 Laura Mulvey
- 27 Homi K. Bhabha
- 28 Slavoj Žižek
- 29 Stephen Heath
- 30 Alain Badiou
- 31 Jacques Rancière
- 32 Giorgio Agamben
- Filmography
- Bibliography
- Index
31 - Jacques Rancière
from III - CINEMATIC NATURE
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: What is film-philosophy?
- I WHAT IS CINEMA?
- II POLITICS OF THE CINEMATIC CENTURY
- III CINEMATIC NATURE
- 23 Raymond Bellour
- 24 Christian Metz
- 25 Julia Kristeva
- 26 Laura Mulvey
- 27 Homi K. Bhabha
- 28 Slavoj Žižek
- 29 Stephen Heath
- 30 Alain Badiou
- 31 Jacques Rancière
- 32 Giorgio Agamben
- Filmography
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Jacques Rancière (b. 1940) is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris (St Denis). Rancière co-authored Reading Capital (with his teacher Louis Althusser, and Etienne Balibar et al., 1968). Rancière is known for his work on labour historiography, political pedagogy, literature, film and the politics of aesthetics. Rancière has published many books in French, most of which have been translated into English, including The Nights of Labour (1981; English trans. 1989), The Philosopher and his Poor (1983; English trans. 2004), The Ignorant Schoolmaster (1987; English trans. 1991), On the Shores of Politics (1992; English trans. 1995), The Names of History (1992; English trans. 1994), Disagreement (1995; English trans. 1999), Mallarmé (1996), The Flesh of Words (1998; English trans. 2004), Film Fables (2001; English trans. 2006), The Politics of Aesthetics (2000; English trans. 2004), The Future of the Image (2003; English trans. 2007) and Hatred of Democracy (2005; English trans. 2007).
Jacques Rancière's engagement with philosophy has been marked by scrupulous and sustained critique. This critique is one node of a much larger network of work that spans and questions the fields of literature, history, pedagogy, art and cinema. Rancière's engagement with film cannot thus be cast as that of a philosopher applying a “framework” to the study of film, for he reworks philosophy as much as film, within an a-disciplinary project that has linked the question of aesthetics to politics (cf. Dasgupta 2007; Rancière 2006a).
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- Film, Theory and PhilosophyThe Key Thinkers, pp. 339 - 348Publisher: Acumen PublishingPrint publication year: 2009