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Contents; Introduction: Jacques Ranciere: Penseur de l'envers: Gabriel Rockhill and Phil Watts; I. History; 1: Historicizing Untimeliness: Kristin Ross; 2: The Lessons of Jacques Ranciere: Knowledge and Power after the Storm: Alain Badiou; 3: Sophisticated Continuities and Historical Discontinuities, Or, Why Not Protagoras?: Eric Mechoulan; 4: The Classics and Critical Theory in Postmodern France: The Case of Jacques Ranciere: Giuseppina Mecchia; 5: Ranciere and Metaphysics: Jean-Luc Nancy; II Politics; 6: What Is Political Philosophy? Contextual Notes: Etienne Balibar; 7: Ranciere in South Carolina: Todd May; 8: Political Agency and the Ambivalence of the Sensible: Yves Citton; 9: Staging Equality: Ranciere's Theatrocracy and the Limits of Anarchic Equality; Peter Hallward; 10: Ranciere's Leftism, Or, Politics and Its Discontents: Bruno Bosteels; 11: Jacques Ranciere's Ethical Turn and the Thinking of Discontents: Solange Guenoun; III Aesthetics; 12: The Politics of Aesthetics: Political History and the Hermeneutics of Art: Gabriel Rockhill; 13: Cinema and Its Discontents: Tom Conley; 14: Politicizing Art in Ranciere and Deleuze: The Case of Postcolonial Literature: Raji Vallury; 15: Impossible Speech Acts: Jacques Ranciere's Erich Auerbach: Andrew Parker; 16: Style indirect libre: James Swenson; Afterword: The Method of Equality: An Answer to Some Questions: Jacques Ranciere

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"What makes this volume the book that everyone interested in Jacques Ranciere has to have is its incomparable roster of contributors. Ranciere himself sets a standard of intellectual seriousness, and the contributors honour him by wrestling strenuously with his thought. They illuminate the trajectory of that thought and the connections between the historian of class and the philosopher of equality, the thinker of politics and the thinker of aesthetics. You can see why Ranciere is one of the few French thinkers creating an ever greater excitement in North America." Bruce Robbins, author of Upward Mobility and the Common Good: Toward a Literary History of the Welfare State "This timely collection of essays should finally jump-start the English-speaking conversation about the work of Jacques Ranciere, one of the most innovative political philosophers now writing. His method of equality, his contrast of a stable 'police' order with 'the political' as an interruption of that order by those invisible within it, and his idea that both politics and art involve modes of distributing/partitioning the sensible together form a unique constellation of radical political thinking."--J. M. Bernstein, New School for Social Research