Errant Letters: Jacques Rancière and the Philosophy of Literature

Jerzy Franczak comprehensively presents Jacques Rancière’s thought by emphasizing the relationship between politics and literature. This detailed analysis takes into account the context of modern aesthetics and political philosophy, as a result, the book introduces further protagonists such as Louis Althusser, Michel Foucault, Pierre Bourdieu, or Jean-François Lyotard. Franczak first reconstructs Rancière’s original philosophy of literature and subsequently apply it in readings of select world literature masterpieces by Gustav Flaubert, Max Jacob, Bertold Brecht, Vladimir Nabokov, and Philip Roth. Cover HalfTitle Series Page Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents Abbreviations Rancière: Montages L’indiscipliné Patricide The Event Logic Revolts Map of the Possible I The Aesthetic Revolution Emma’s Crime Liberty, Equality, Indifference Literature, Medicine, Democracy Regimes of Art A Positive Contradiction Mute Word Democratic Form False Historicizations The Aesthetic Unconscious II Slicing the World The Beggar of Naples Sensible The Aesthetic State The Sublime Police and Politics White and White Consensual Times III Scandal! Annulling Politics Counterlives À la Recherche du Peuple Perdu Non Sumus, Non Existumus The Nights of Labor The Incalculable IV Vicious Circle The Platonic Lie Parmenidean Marxism In the Belly of the Beast Poetics of Knowledge Paradox of the Spectator V Exercises in Freedom The Ignorant Schoolmaster Performative of Equality Glory To Thieves! A Literary Animal The Spectacle of the Scaffold Opening Bibliography