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Jacques Rancière, University of Paris (St. Denis)"By 'politics of literature' Rancière means the intervention of the new democratic literature of modernity in the parceling out of space and time. There is more than one democracy at stake here, and no one has tracked their competing claims and contradictory vocations more brilliantly than Rancière. Every page of this riveting work illuminates and challenges. This is Rancière at his scintillating best."<br /> <b>J.M. Bernstein, New School for Social Research</b> <br />
This book seeks to show how the literary revolution shatters the perceptible order that underpinned traditional hierarchies, but also why literary equality foils any bid to place literature in the service of politics or in its place. It tests its hypotheses on certain writers: Flaubert, Tolstoy, Hugo, Mallarmé, Brecht and Borges, to name a few. It also shows the consequences of this for psychoanalytical intepretation, historical narration and philosophical conceptualization.
Hypotheses
- The Politics of Literature
- Literary Misunderstanding
Figures
- The Putting to Death of Emma Bovary: Literature, Democracy and Medicine
- On the Battlefield: Tolstoy, Literature, History
- The Intruder: Mallarmé's Politics
- The Gay Science of Bertolt Brecht
- Borges and French Disease
Crossings
- The Truth Through the Window: Literary Truth, Freudian Truth
- The historian, literature and the genre of biography
- The Poet at the philosopher's: Mallarmé and Badiou
This book seeks to show how the literary revolution shatters the perceptible order that underpinned traditional hierarchies, but also why literary equality foils any bid to place literature in the service of politics or in its place. It tests its hypotheses on certain writers: Flaubert, Tolstoy, Hugo, Mallarmé, Brecht and Borges, to name a few. It also shows the consequences of this for psychoanalytical intepretation, historical narration and philosophical conceptualization.