Foreign thinker
Jacques Rancière
Jacques RancièrePolitical philosophy and aestheticsFrenchb. 1940
Politics begins when someone who has no share in power claims to be equal to those who do.
Life and Thought
Jacques Rancière is a French philosopher and a leading figure in contemporary political philosophy, known for reworking the relationship between politics, aesthetics, and democracy through concepts such as the "distribution of the sensible" and the "equality of intelligences." Initially a collaborator of Louis Althusser, he later charted an independent intellectual path through his critique of structuralist Marxism.
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