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    Jacques Rancière is a French philosopher born in 1940. He is professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of Paris and came to prominence when he co-authored Reading Capital with Louis Althusser in 1968. Since then, Rancière has departed from Althusser's teachings and published works exploring concepts like ideology, the proletariat, and the relationship between intellectuals and the masses. His book The Ignorant Schoolmaster challenges traditional education models by arguing all people have equal intelligence and the oppressed should feel able to teach themselves. Rancière's works have influenced fields like art, education, and political theory.

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    Jacques Rancière is a French philosopher born in 1940. He is professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of Paris and came to prominence when he co-authored Reading Capital with Louis Althusser in 1968. Since then, Rancière has departed from Althusser's teachings and published works exploring concepts like ideology, the proletariat, and the relationship between intellectuals and the masses. His book The Ignorant Schoolmaster challenges traditional education models by arguing all people have equal intelligence and the oppressed should feel able to teach themselves. Rancière's works have influenced fields like art, education, and political theory.

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    Jacques Rancire

    Jacques Rancire (born 1940) is a French philosopher,


    Professor of Philosophy at European Graduate School in
    Saas-Fee and Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the
    University of Paris (St. Denis) who came to prominence
    when he co-authored Reading Capital (1968), with the
    structuralist Marxist philosopher Louis Althusser.[1]

    their intellectual growth in virtually unlimited directions.


    The schoolmaster need not know anything (i.e., s/he may
    be ignorant). Rancire begins with the premises that all
    are of equal intelligence and that any collective educational exercise founded on this principle can provide the
    insights from which knowledge is constructed. He claims
    that the poor and disenfranchised should feel perfectly
    able to teach themselves whatever it is they want to know.
    Furthermore, anyone can lead, and the oppressed should
    not feel bound to experts or reliant on others for their intellectual emancipation.

    Life and work

    Rancire contributed to the inuential volume Reading


    Capital (though his contribution is not contained in the
    partial English translation) before publicly breaking with
    Althusser over his attitude toward the May 1968 student
    uprising in Paris; Rancire felt Althussers theoretical
    stance didn't leave enough room for spontaneous popular uprising.[2]

    Joseph Jacotot advocated the 'equality of intelligence' and


    claimed that an ignorant person could teach another ignorant person. Rancire developed this idea in The Ignorant
    Schoolmaster, saying that there is stultication whenever
    one intelligence is subordinated to another ... whoever
    teaches without emancipating stulties.[3][4]

    Since then, Rancire has departed from the path set by


    his teacher and published a series of works probing the
    concepts that make up our understanding of political discourse, such as ideology and proletariat. He sought to address whether the working class in fact exists, and how the
    masses of workers that thinkers like Althusser referred
    to continuously enter into a relationship with knowledge,
    particularly the limits of philosophers knowledge with
    respect to the proletariat. An example of this line of
    thinking is Rancires book entitled Le philosophe et ses
    pauvres (The Philosopher and His Poor, 1983), a book
    about the role of the poor in the intellectual lives of
    philosophers.

    2 Inuence
    In 2006, it was reported that Rancires aesthetic theory had become a point of reference in the visual arts,
    and Rancire has lectured at such art world events as
    the Frieze Art Fair.[2] Former French presidential candidate Sgolne Royal described Rancire as her favourite
    philosopher.[5]

    3 Selected bibliography

    More recently Rancire has written on the topic of human rights and specically the role of international hu- Rancires work in English translation
    man rights organizations in asserting the authority to determine which groups of people again the problem of
    Reading Capital (1968) (With Louis Althusser,
    masses justify human rights interventions, and even
    Roger Establet, Pierre Macherey and tienne Balwar.
    ibar - in the French original edition)
    Rancires book, The Ignorant Schoolmaster: Five
    Lessons in Intellectual Emancipation (original title Le
    Matre ignorant: Cinq leons sur l'mancipation intellectuelle, published in 1987) was written for educators
    and educators-to-be. Through the story of Joseph Jacotot, Rancire challenges his readers to consider equality
    as a starting point rather than a destination. In doing so,
    he asks educators to abandon the themes and rhetoric of
    cultural deciency and salvation. Rather than requiring
    informed schoolmasters to guide students towards prescribed and alienating ends, Rancire argues that educators can channel the equal intelligence in all to facilitate

    Reply to Levy. Telos 33 (Fall 1977). New York:


    Telos Press.
    The Nights of Labor: The Workers Dream in
    Nineteenth-Century France (1989) ISBN 0-87722833-7.
    Nights of Labor
    The Ignorant Schoolmaster: Five Lessons in Intellectual Emancipation (1987, tr. 1991) - ISBN 0-80471969-1.
    1

    5 VIDEO LECTURES
    The Names of History: On the Poetics of Knowledge (1994) - This is a brief book, arguing for an
    epistemological critique of the methods and goals of the
    traditional study of history. It has been inuential in the
    philosophy of history

    Bela Tarr, the Time After (2013), tr. by Erik Beranek: ISBN 978-1937561154
    Selected articles in English

    On the Shores of Politics (1995): ISBN 0-86091637-5

    Ten Theses on Politics Theory & Event 2001

    Disagreement: Politics and Philosophy (1998) ISBN


    0-8166-2844-0.

    Who Is the Subject of the Rights of Man?" The


    South Atlantic Quarterly, Volume 103, Number 2/3,
    Spring/Summer 2004, pp. 297310

    Short Voyages to the Land of the People (2003):


    ISBN 0-8047-3682-0
    The Politics of Aesthetics: The Distribution of the
    Sensible, ed. and transl. by Gabriel Rockhill (2004):
    ISBN 978-0-8264-8954-8
    The Philosopher and His Poor, ed. Andrew Parker,
    co-trans. John Drury, Corinne Oster, and Andrew
    Parker (2004): ISBN 978-0-8223-3274-9
    The Future of the Image (2007): ISBN 1-84467107-0
    Hatred of Democracy (2007): ISBN 978-1-84467098-7
    The Aesthetic Unconscious (2009), transl., Debra
    Keates & James Swenson: ISBN 978-0-7456-46442
    The Emancipated Spectator (2010): ISBN 978-184467-343-8
    Dissensus: On Politics and Aesthetics (2010): ISBN
    978-1-84706-445-5
    Chronicles of Consensual Times (2010), tr.
    Steven Corcoran: ISBN 978-0-8264-4288-8

    Is there a Deleuzian Aesthetics?" Tr. Radmila


    Djordjevic, Qui Parle?, Volume 14, Number 2,
    2004, pp. 114
    Further reading
    The Lessons of Rancire. Samuel A. Chambers.
    (New York: Oxford University Press, 2013).
    Jacques Rancire: An Introduction, by Joseph
    Tanke. (New York & London: Continuum, 2011).
    Jacques Rancire: Politics, History, Aesthetics. Eds.
    Phil Watts and Gabriel Rockhill. (Durham & London: Duke University Press, 2009). Also includes
    an afterword by Rancire: The Method of Equality: An Answer to Some Questions.
    Politica delle immagini. Su Jacques Rancire, ed. by
    Roberto De Gaetano (Cosenza: Pellegrini, 2011).
    Includes essays by Rancire.

    by

    The Politics of Literature (2011), tr. by Julie Rose:


    ISBN 978-0-7456-4531-5
    Staging the People: The Proletarian and His Double
    (2011), tr. by David Fernbach: ISBN 978-1-84467697-2
    Althussers Lesson (2011) - The rst English translation
    of Rancires rst book, in which he explores and begins to
    move beyond the thought of his mentor, Louis Althusser

    (tr. by Emiliano Battista) ISBN 978-1-4411-0805-0


    Mute Speech: Literature, Critical Theory, and Politics
    (2011), tr. by James Swenson: ISBN 978-0-23115103-0
    Mallarm: The Politics of the Siren (2011), tr. by
    Steven Corcoran: ISBN 978-0-8264-3840-9
    Aisthesis: Scenes from the Aesthetic Regime of Art
    (2013), tr. by Zakir Paul: ISBN 978-1-78168-0896

    4 Films
    Marx Reloaded, Arte, April 2011.

    5 Video lectures
    Jacques Rancire. What Makes Images Unacceptable?" on YouTube Pacic Northwest College of
    Art. Portland, Oregon, February 29, 2008
    Jacques Rancire. Nights of Labour. on YouTube
    Sarai Centre for the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS). Video Lecture. February
    6, 2009
    Jacques Rancire. Negation and Cinematic Vertigo. European Graduate School. Video Lecture.
    August 2009

    Interviews
    We Are Always Ignorant of our own Eects,
    Jacques Rancire interviewed by Pablo Bustinduy,
    in The Conversant, 2013
    Democracy Means Equality, interview in Radical
    Philosophy
    Politics and Aesthetics, Jacques Ranciere interviewed by Peter Hallward, 2003
    Eurozine interview with Ranciere, 2006
    Art Is Going Elsewhere. And Politics Has to Catch
    It, Jacques Rancire interviewed by Sudeep Dasgupta, 2008
    'The Politics of Aesthetics: Jacques Rancire Interviewed by Nicolas Vieillescazes this interview piece
    was rst posted: 12-01-09 at the website of Naked
    Punch
    Aesthetics against Incarnation: An Interview by
    Anne Marie Oliver, Critical Inquiry, 2008
    (French) Jean-Luc Godard, La religion de l'art.
    Entretien avec Jacques Rancire paru dans CinmAction, O en est le God-Art ? , n 109,
    2003, pp. 106112, reproduit sur le site d'analyse
    L'oBservatoire (simple appareil).

    References

    [1] See: Jacques Rancire Faculty Prole at European Graduate School


    [2] Ben Davis. Rancire, For Dummies. The Politics of Aesthetics. Book Review.
    [3] Jacques Ranciere (1981). The Ignorant Schoolmaster:
    Five Lessons in Intellectual Emancipation. pp. 13, 18.
    [4] Molly Quinn. Committing (to) Ignorance. Epistemologies of Ignorance in Education. pp. 3152.
    [5] Patrice Bollon; Mark K. Jensen (December 2006).
    Translation: Jacques Rancire, the philosopher who
    inspires Sgolne Royal. United for Peace of Pierce
    County, WA. Paris Match. p. 34. Retrieved 9 December 2013. Scoop: we've found out where the Socialist
    candidate got her ideas! From this intellectual sensitive
    to political alienation. Jacques Rancire.

    External links
    Jacques Rancire Faculty Page at European Graduate School
    Blog. Discussions and updates on Jacques Rancire

    With and Around Jacques Rancire. Art and Research. Volume 2. No. 1. Summer 2008
    Thomas Campbell. Rancires Lessons.
    Ben Davis. Jacques Rancire, The Politics of Aesthetics. artnet. Book Review. August 17, 2006.
    Audio Recordings of guest lectures given at U.C.
    Berkeley. February/March 2008
    Luka Arsenjuk. On Jacques Rancire. Eurozine, 1
    March 2007
    (Spanish) Adolfo Vsquez Rocca. Jacques Rancire; politics and aisthesis
    Eli Bornowsky. Notes on the Politics of Aesthetics.
    Fillip. Book Review. 2006
    Juha Suoranta (2010). Jacques Rancire on Radical
    Equality and Adult Education. The Encyclopaedia
    of Philosophy of Education
    (French) Jacques Rancire, l'indisciplin". A
    special issue of the journal Labyrinthe, 2004 (in
    French)
    Guantanamo, Justice, and Bushspeak: Prisoners of
    the Innite, CounterPunch article (2002)

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