The talk will be moderated by Peter Engelmann, the director of Vienna-based publishers Passagen Verlag. It will be preceded by a short introduction by the philosopher Zsolt Bagi.
Ranci?re taught philosophy at the University of Paris, St. Denis, from 1969 until 2000. His works deal with the politics of emancipation, aesthetics and the relationship between politics and aesthetics.
?Dissensus: On Politics and Aesthetics brings together some of Jacques Ranci?re?s most recent writings on art and politics to show the critical potential of two of his most important concepts: the aesthetics of politics and the politics of aesthetics,? says the English language publisher of the book Continuum.
?In this fascinating collection, Ranci?re engages in a radical critique of some of his major contemporaries on questions of art and politics: Gilles Deleuze, Antonio Negri, Giorgio Agamben, Alain Badiou and Jacques Derrida. The essays show how Ranci?re?s ideas can be used to analyse contemporary trends in both art and politics, including the events surrounding 9/11, war in the contemporary consensual age, and the ethical turn of aesthetics and politics. Ranci?re elaborates new directions for the concepts of politics and communism, as well as the notion of what a ?politics of art? might be,? Continuum says.
