Abstract

This essay discusses Jacques Rancière’s political philosophy with respect to its ‘aesthetic’ basis that rests on a theory of the division of the sensible (partage du sensible). The author raises the question whether Rancières conception of this partage goes beyond traditional theories of perspectivity and political plurality. The evaluation of this approach of Rancière’s political theory focuses on critical potentials of a political sensitisation for the fact that (and how) we live in a shared and at the same time divided political world.