Dissenting Words is a lively & engaging collection of interviews that span the length of Jacques Ranciere's trajectory from the critique of Althusserian Marxism & the work on proletarian thinking in the nineteenth century to the more recent reflections on politics & aesthetics Across these pages Ranciere discusses the figures concepts & arguments he has introduced to the theoretical landscape over the past forty years the themes & concerns that have animated his thinking the positions he has defended & the wide range of objects & discourses that have attracted his attention & through which his thought has unfolded history pedagogy literature art cinema But more than reflecting on the continuities turns ruptures & deviations in his thought Ranciere recasts his work in a different discursive register & the pleasure we experience in reading these interviews
- with their asides displacements & reconstructions
- stems from the way Ranciere transforms the voice of the thinker commenting on his texts & elucidating his concepts into another & equally rich manifestation of his thought Core sections of this edition are translated from the french publication Et tant pis pour le gens fatigues by Jacques Ranciere (c) Editions Amsterdam 2009 published by arrangement Agence litteraire Pierre Astier & Associes