Diversity of voices, diversity of languages : one week of events and readings in Lyon and in the Rhône-Alpes region.
Jacques Rancière
Jacques Rancière © PUF
PHILOSOPHER
France
BiographY
A philosopher and emeritus professor of the University of Paris VIII, Jacques Rancière works in very broad fields of study, from the politics of esthetics to education. A student of Louis Althusser and member of the authors’ collective Lire le Capital, he left the Marxist school embraced by Althusser but continued to study the world of the laborer in the 19th and 20th centuries. His major works, La Nuit des prolétaires, Aux bords de la politique, and Les Noms de l’Histoire reflect his desire to redefine the ideological and social premises. With Le Maître ignorant, published in 1987, he questions his own status as a scientist and teacher. He is also the author of a large body of work dedicated to the relationship between art and politics, including essays such as Politique de la littérature and Le Partage du sensible. An important democratic theorist, Jacques Rancière is one of the major philosophers of his generation.
