Disagreement Politics And Philosophy 1st Edition by Jacques Ranciere ISBN 0816628459 9780816628452

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ISBN 10: 0816628459

ISBN 13: 9780816628452

Author: Jacques Ranciere 

“Is there any such thing as political philosophy?” So begins this provocative book by one of the foremost figures in Continental thought. Here, Jacques Ranciere brings a new and highly useful set of terms to the vexed debate about political effectiveness in the face of a new world order.

What precisely is at stake in the relationship between “philosophy” and the adjective “political”? In Disagreement, Ranciere explores the apparent contradiction between these terms and reveals the uneasy meaning of their union in the phrase “political philosophy” — a juncture related to age-old attempts in philosophy to answer Plato’s devaluing of politics as a “democratic egalitarian” process.

According to Ranciere, the phrase also expresses the paradox of politics itself: the absence of a proper foundation. Politics, he argues, begins when the “demos” (the “excessive” or unrepresented part of society) seeks to disrupt the order of domination and distribution of goods “naturalized” by police and legal institutions. In addition, the notion of “equality” operates as a game of contestation that constantly substitutes litigation for political action and community. This game, Ranciere maintains, operates by a primary logic of “misunderstanding”. In turn, political philosophy has always tried to substitute the “politics of truth” for the politics of appearances.

Disagreement investigates the various transformations of this regime of “truth” and their effects on practical politics. Ranciere then distinguishes what we mean by “democracy” from the practices of a consensual system in order to unravel the ramifications of the fashionable phrase “the end of politics”. His conclusions will be of interest toreaders concerned with political questions from the broadest to the most specific and local.

Table of contents:

Preface vii
1. The Beginning of Politics 1
2. Wrong: Politics and Police 21
3. The Rationality of Disagreement 43
4. From Archipolitics to Metapolitics 61
5. Democracy or Consensus 95
6. Politics in Its Nihilistic Age 123
Notes 141
Index 147

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