Jacques Rancière’s public lecture: Politics of Time, Time of Politics

26 Sep 2013 - 17:00 / 26 Sep 2013 - 17:00

Isabel Bader Theatre
93 Charles Street West
University of Toronto

5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.
This event is sponsored by Victoria University.

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Jacques Rancière, professor emeritus at the Université de Paris (St Denis) and faculty member at the European Graduate School, is one of the most read and most influential philosophers writing today.  No scholar working in the fields of politics, aesthetics, the philosophy of education, or the philosophy of history, can afford to ignore his work. But Rancière is also at the forefront of rethinking the nature of the scholar and the public intellectual along democratic and activist lines. Among his many works are Reading Capital (1968), The Nights of Labor: The Workers’ Dream in Nineteenth-Century France (1989), The Ignorant Schoolmaster; Five Lessons in Intellectual Emancipation (1991), The Names of History; On the Poetics of Knowledge (1994), On the Shores of Politics (1995), Disagreement: Politics and Philosophy (1998), The Politics of Aesthetics: The Distribution of the Sensible (2004), The Philosopher and his Poor (2004), The Flesh of Words (2004), The Future of the Image (2007), Hatred of Democracy (2007), The Aesthetic Unconscious (2009), The Emancipated Spectator (2009), Aesthetics and its Discontents (2009), Mute Speech (2011), The Politics of Literature (2011), and Staging the People: The Proletariat and his Double (2011).