Video: Jacques Rancière, Giuseppina Mecchia, David Bell, Marina van Zuylen, and Suzanne Guerlac — Aesthetics and the Question of Disciplinarity

On September 21, the Department of French and Italian at Ohio State University hosted Jacques Rancière for a two-day symposium, entitled Aesthetics and the Question of Disciplinarity.

In his talk, "The Edge of Fiction," Rancière elaborated on some of the ideas developed within his latest book, Les Bords de la fiction. 

At OSU, Rancière's lecture was followed by presentations from Giuseppina Mecchia, David Bell, Marina van Zuylen, and Suzanne Guerlac, concluding with a response from Rancière.

Aisthesis

by Jacques Rancière

Translated by Zakir Paul

The definitive statement on aesthetics and the history of modernism from one of France's most renowned philosophers. Composed of a series of scenes that defined modernism, Aisthesis takes its reade...

The Intervals of Cinema

by Jacques Rancière

Translated by John Howe

The cinema, like language, can be said to exist as a system of differences. In his latest book the acclaimed philosopher Jacques Rancière relates cinema to literature and theatre. With literature, ...

Staging the People

by Jacques Rancière

Translated by David Fernbach

These essays from the 1970s mark the inception of the distinctive project that Jacques Rancière has pursued across forty years, with four interwoven themes: the study of working-class identity, of ...

The Intellectual and His People

by Jacques Rancière

A classic collection of essay by Jacques Ranciere, that focuses on the ways in which radical philosophers understand the people they profess to speak for. The Intellectual and His People engages in...

Proletarian Nights

by Jacques Rancière

Introduction by Donald Reid

Proletarian Nights, previously published in English as Nights of Labor and one of Rancière’s most important works, dramatically reinterprets the Revolution of 1830, contending that workers were not...

On the Shores of Politics

by Jacques Rancière

Translated by Liz Heron

It is frequently said that we are living through the end of politics, the end of social upheavals, the end of utopian folly. Consensual realism is the order of the day. But political realists, rema...

Aesthetics and Politics

by Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Ernst Bloch, Bertolt Brecht and Georg Lukács

Afterword by Fredric Jameson

No other country and no other period has produced a tradition of major aesthetic debate to compare with that which unfolded in German culture from the 1930s to the 1950s. In Aesthetics and Politics...

The Antinomies of Realism

by Fredric Jameson

The Antinomies of Realism is a history of the nineteenth-century realist novel and its legacy told without a glimmer of nostalgia for artistic achievements that the movement of history makes it imp...

Modern Epic

by Franco Moretti

Translated by Quintin Hoare

“Take Faust, what is it? A ‘tragedy’, as its author states? A great philosophical tale? A collection of lyrical insights? Who can say. How about Moby-Dick? Encyclopedia, novel or romance? Or even a...

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