The development of Rancière's philosophical work, from his formative
years through the political and methodological break with Louis
Althusser and the lessons of May 68, is documented here, as are the
confrontations with other thinkers, the controversies and occasional
misunderstandings. So too are the unity of his work and the distinctive
style of his thinking, despite the frequent disconnect between politics
and aesthetics and the subterranean movement between categories and
works. Lastly one sees his view of our age, and of our age's many
different and competing realities. What we gain in the end is a rich and
multi-layered portrait of a life and a body of thought dedicated to the
exercise of philosophy and to the emergence of possible new worlds.