Jacques Rancière

Jacques Rancière is professor emeritus at the Université Paris VIII. He was a student of French philosopher Louis Althusser and a member of the authors’ collective „Lire le Capital“, but he left the Marxist school embraced by Althusser. His major works, „La Nuit des prolétaires“ (1981, „The Nights of Labor: The Workers’ Dream in the Nineteenth-Century France“), „Aux bords de la politique“ (1990, „On the Shores of Politics“), and „Les Noms de l’Histoire“ (1992, „The Names of History“) reflect his desire to redefine the ideological and social premises. With „Le Maître ignorant“ (1987, „The Ignorant Schoolmaster“), he is rethinking the nature of the scholar and the public intellectual along democratic and activist lines. His work is dedicated to the relationship between aesthetics and politics, in his lecture „Le Spectateur Émancipé“ (2008, „The Emancipated Spectator“) he referred his ideas to an equal relation between artist and spectator. In Le Partage du sensible.  In „Le Partage du sensible. Esthétique et politique“ (2004, The Politics of Aesthetics. The Distribution of the Sensible) he formulates aesthetics and politics as different forms of community. In addition to this publications he wrote numours essays about cinematic art; see the collection “Und das Kino geht weiter”, 2012)