On the Shores of Politics
On the Shores of Politics It is frequently said that we are living through the end of politics, the end of social upheavals, the end of utopian folly. But political realists, remarks Jacques…
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On the Shores of Politics
It is frequently said that we are living through the end of politics, the end of social upheavals, the end of utopian folly. But political realists, remarks Jacques Ranciere, are always several steps behind reality, and the only thing which may come to an end with their dominance is democracy. Consensual realism is the order of the day.
He argues persuasively that since Plato and Aristotle politics has always constructed itself as the art of ending politics, that realism is itself utopian, and that what has succeeded the polemical forms of class struggle is not the wisdom of a new millennium but the return of old fears, criminality 'We could', he suggests, 'merely smile at the duplicity of the conclusion/suppression of politics which is simultaneously a suppression/conclusion of philosophy.'This is precisely the task which Ranciere undertakes in these subtle and perceptive essays.
On the Shores of Politics
On Savage Shores
Curious Creatures on our Shores
Shores Beyond Shores
The Politics of Vulnerability
The Shores Beyond Time
The Politics of Hunger