The Politics of Aesthetics rethinks the relationship between art and
politics, reclaiming "aesthetics" from the narrow confines it is often
reduced to. Jacques Rancière reveals its intrinsic link to politics by
analysing what they both have in common: the delimitation of the visible
and the invisible, the audible and the inaudible, the thinkable and the
unthinkable, the possible and the impossible. Presented as a set of
inter-linked interviews, The Politics of Aesthetics provides the most
comprehensive introduction to Rancière's work to date, ranging across
the history of art and politics from the Greek polis to the aesthetic
revolution of the modern age.
Available now in the Bloomsbury Revelations series 10 years after its
original publication, The Politics of Aesthetics includes an afterword
by Slavoj Zizek, an interview for the English edition, a glossary of
technical terms and an extensive bibliography.