Jacques Ranciére and the subversion of mastery

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Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 26-45

  Hallward, Peter ^a  

^a MIDDLESEX UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 70350394138     PISSN: 02648334     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3366/para.2005.28.1.26     Document Type: Note

References (28)

1. I have used the following abbreviations for works by Jacques Ranciére: AR: 'The Aesthetic Revolution and its Outcomes: Emplotments of Autonomy and Heteronomy', New Left Review 14 (April 2002), 133-51.
2. D: Disagreement. Politics and Philosophy [1995], translated by Julie Rose (Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, 1999).
3. IS: The Ignorant Schoolmaster: Five Lessons in Intellectual Emancipation [1987], translated by Kristin Ross (Stanford, Stanford University Press, 1991).
4. LP: 'Literature, Politics, Aesthetics: Approaches to Democratic Disagreement' (interview with Solange Guénoun and James H. Kavanagh), SubStance 92 (2000), 3-24.
5. NH: The Names of History: On the Poetics of Knowledge [1992], translated by Hassan Melehy (Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, 1994).
6. NL: The Nights of Labor: The Workers' Dream in Nineteenth-Century France [1981], translated by John Drury (Philadelphia, Temple University Press, 1989).
7. PA: 'Politics and Aesthetics', interview with Peter Hallward, Angelaki 8:2 (2003), 191-212.
8. PM: La Parole muette: Essai sur les contradictions de la littérature (Paris, Hachette, 1998).
9. PP: Le Philosophe et ses pauvres (Paris, Fayard, 1983).
10. PS: Le Partage du sensible: Esthétique et politique (Paris, La Fabrique, 2000).
11. SP: On the Shores of Politics [1990], translated by Liz Heron (London, Verso, 1995).
12. Friedrich Schiller, Letters on the Aesthetic Education of Man [1795], translated by Reginald Snell (New York, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1954), 137.
13. Louis Althusser, 'Problémes étudiants', La Nouvelle Critique 152 (January 1964)
14. quoted in Kristin Ross, 'Translator's Introduction,' IS, xvi.
15. Cf. Ranciére, La Leçon d'Althusser (Paris, Gallimard, 1974), 34-5.
16. Ranciére, 'Good Times or Pleasures at the Barriers' [1978], in Voices of the People, edited by Adrian Rifkin and Roger Thomas (London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1988), 50. The joiner and floor-layer Gabriel Gauny (whose writings Ranciére collected and edited in Le Philosophe plébien, 1983), for instance, learns much from his encounters with Saint-Simonian ideas but refuses the condescending revaluation of work as the basis of a new moral order, one grounded in the integrity of 'a job well done'. Instead, Gauny explores the inconsistent and unstable condition of being a manual labourer who also writes and philosophizes, he embraces the very precariousness of his position as enabling a certain degree of freedom, self-criticism and detachment.
17. See in particular Pierre Bourdieu and Jean-Claude Passeron, The Inheritors: French Students and their Relations to Culture (Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1979)
18. and Reproduction in Education, Society and Culture (London, Sage, 1977).
19. Michelet, quoted in NH, 45-6.
20. Braudel, quoted in NH, 17.
21. AR, 147. Adorno's condemnation of Stravinsky will invoke a similar logic (cf. Rancière, 'From Lyotard to Schiller: Two Readings of Kant and their Political Significance', Radical Philosophy 126 (July 2004), 11).
22. Clement Greenberg, 'Avant-Garde and Kitsch' [1937], in Greenberg, Art and Culture (Boston, Beacon Press, 1961), 6-8; cf. PS, 18-19.
23. Rancière, 'From Lyotard to Schiller', 15.
24. For more on this shared thematic, see Hallward, 'The One or the Other: French Philosophy Today', Angelaki 8:2 (2003), 1-32.
25. Schiller, Letters, 98-101.
26. See for instance IS, 77. As Badiou notes, Rancière's presumption is that 'every social tie implies a master' (Alain Badiou, Abrégé de métapolitique, Paris, Seuil, 1998, 123).
27. Quoted in Badiou, Abrégé de métapolitique, 125.
28. Rancière, La Chair des mots: Politiques de l'écriture (Paris, Galilée, 1998), 11.