Jacques Ranciere: An Introduction

Joseph J. Tanke is the Chalsty Professor of Aesthetics and Philosophy at California College of the Arts, USA. He has published and lectured extensively on issues in Continental philosophy, with a special emphasis on aesthetics and politics, as well as the works of Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze, and Jacques Ranciere. Professor Tanke was recently named to the editorial board of Philosophy and Social Criticism, and his essays are currently being translated into two other languages. In addition to having studied philosophy in both the United States and Europe, Joseph holds a degree in art history and has worked for several art institutions.

• Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. For A Critique of Philosophy; Introduction; 1.1. The Lesson of Althusser; 1.2. The Lessons of May; 1.3. Lessons From the Archives; 1.4. Lessons on Philosopher-Kings; 1.5. Lessons From Equality; Conclusion; 2. Politics By Process of Elimination; Introduction; 2.1. On the Terrain of Policed Consensus; 2.2. The Aesthetics of Counting; 2.3. Supposing, Verifying, and Demonstrating Equality; 2.4. Disputing Subjects and Litigious Objects: Politics as Dissensus; 2.5. The Subjective Process of Politics; Conclusion; 3. Retrieving the Politics of Aesthetics; Introduction; 3.1. Analyzing the Part of Art; 3.2. Three Regimes of Art; 3.3. Equality in Art; 3.4. In Place of Modernity; 3.5. Against Postmodernity; 3.6. Art as Dissensus; Conclusion; 4. Regimes of Cinema; Introduction; 4.1. A Historical Poetics of Cinema; 4.2. Cinema, the Dream of the Aesthetic Age; 4.3. The Logic of the Thwarted Fable; 4.4. Allegories of Modernity: Deleuze and the Use of Hitchcock; 4.5. Cinema and Its Century: Godard and the Abuse of Hitchcock; Conclusion; 5. Beyond Ranciere; Introduction; 5.1. Sensing Equality?; 5.2. The Centrality of the Imagination; 5.3. Inventing the Trans-Subjective Imagination; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

Tanke's book will be an essential reference for anyone interested in Ranciere's extraordinarily rich philosophical contributions. Written from the standpoint of a strong and articulate philosophical voice, this first monograph is in fact not only an introduction, but a true and original engagement with one of the most far-reaching among contemporary continental philosophers.