The Lessons of Rancière
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 8 November 2012
- ISBN 9780199927210
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages240 pages
- Size 155x236x22 mm
- Weight 386 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
What if "liberal democracy" were a contradiction in terms? This book distinguishes liberalism (a logic of order) from democracy (a principle of disordering) to defend a Rancièrean vision of impure politics. Disclosing Rancière's refusal of ontology as political, The Lessons of Rancière enacts a critical theory beyond unmasking and a democratic politics beyond liberalism.
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Liberal democracy is the name given to a regime that much of the world lives in or aspires to, and both liberal and deliberative theorists focus much of their intellectual energy on working to reshape and perfect this regime. But what if "liberal democracy" were a contradiction in terms?
Taking up Jacques Rancière's polemical claim that democracy is not a regime, Samuel A. Chambers argues that liberalism and democracy are not complementary, but competing forces. By way of the most in-depth and rigorous treatment of Rancière's writings to date, The Lessons of Rancière seeks to disentangle democracy from liberalism. Liberalism is a logic of order and hierarchy, of the proper distribution of responsibilities and rights, whereas democratic politics follows a logic of disordering that challenges and disrupts any claims that the allocation of roles could be complete. This book mobilizes a Rancièrean understanding of politics as leverage against the tendency to collapse democracy into the broader terms of liberalism. Chambers defends a vision of "impure" politics, showing that there is no sphere proper to politics, no protected political domain. The job of political theory is therefore not to say what is required in order for politics to occur, not to develop ideal "normative" models of politics, and not even to create new political ontologies. Instead, political theory is itself an enactment of politics in Rancière's sense of dissensus: politics thwarts any social order of domination. Chambers shows that the logic of politics depends on the same principle as Rancière's radical pedagogy: the presupposition of equality. Like traditional critical theory, traditional pedagogy relies on a model of explanation in which the student is presumed to be blind. But what if anyone can understand without additional explanation from a master? The Lessons of Rancière uses this pedagogy as a guide to envision a critical theory beyond blindness and to explore a democratic politics beyond liberalism.
Jacques Ranciere's work circulates widely these days, but it is rarely well-understood. Sam Chambers' The Lessons of Ranciere will change that. Distinguishing Ranciere's project from the anarchism and Arendtianism with which it is often associated, Chambers gives pride of place to Ranciere's historically-situated emancipatory politics of equality and argues that contemporary queer activism is its best exemplar now. Tracking the contingencies of Ranciere's (mis-)translation into English, the stakes of different approaches to his work, and the debates to which Ranciere is a key contributor (humanism, critical theory, subjectivation, and more), Chambers offers a thoroughgoing analysis of the contribution Ranciere stands to make to political and critical theory now. GPS-like, this book will help all readers of Ranciere get their bearings in the space and time of contemporary political theory.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Chapter One: Politics
Chapter Two: Police 125
Chapter Three: Literarity
Chapter Four: Critique
Afterword
Works Cited
Index
