Jacques Rancière and the Politics of Theory

Cultural Critique 106 (Winter 2020):1-26 (2020)
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Abstract

Jacques Rancière presents much of his work as a political intervention, exposing the ways in which so-called critical theory gets “recuperated” in service of oppression and the status quo. But Rancière’s own interventions are ambiguously situated with respect to these same issues. A major source of frustration for Rancière’s readers is locating any kind of positive claim about the role theory could or should play within politics. I argue that, while Rancière’s later work depoliticizes itself, we might look to his earlier work for resources that might a) help us rethink the role of critical theory; and b) take better advantage of Rancière’s later critical work.

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Matthew Lampert
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Towards a Rancièrean Critical Theory.Matthew Lampert - 2019 - Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy 27 (2):95-126.

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