Diversity of voices, diversity of languages : one week of events and readings in Lyon and in the Rhône-Alpes region.
Literature and democracy: Jacques Rancière in discussion with Jean Birnbaum
J. Rancière © PUF
8 bis Quai Saint Vincent
Lyon 1er
“Jacques Rancière is one of the primary figures on the French intellectual scene. In book after book, he has tried to renew thinking on equality and emancipation. But he has always traveled his theoretical path with his close companion, literature, and more precisely with what he calls the politics of literature. By this he means less the practice of militant or activist writing than the ability of literature to create a new relationship between words and things, to provide a new foundation for the freedom of subjects and bodies, to find other ways to interpret life. Because it can shake up the “sharing of what is sensitive,” literature changes the equation right here, right now: through its intermediation, equality is not a future promise, it is instituted now. What is set into motion, like in Mallarmé’s rhymes or a novel by Flaubert, is much more than a simple relationship to language or fiction: it is our ability to give life in society a different rhythm and to rekindle democratic hope. In a word, to build something like a common world.”
Jean Birnbaum
In dialog with Jean Birnbaum.
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