Politics of Literature

ISBN: 978-0-7456-4530-8

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248 pages

February 2011, Polity

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Jacques Rancière is one of the leading philosophers in France today, well-known for his work on aesthetics, politics and the philosophy of literature.
This book is a thoughtful and stimulating account of the relationship between literature and politics, in the style of great thinkers like Sartre.
Rancière argues that the politics of literature is not about the politics of particular writers, but is about a more general relation between politics as a form of collective practice and literature as a historically determined regime of the art of writing.
This book will appeal to students and academics in philosophy, literary theory, political philosophy and social theory. Rancière has a large following in the English-speaking world who will be eager to read this new book.