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

Rancière elaborates on some of the ideas developed within his latest book, Les Bords de la fiction.

Verso Books31 October 2017

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.

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  • Aisthesis

    Aisthesis

    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

    The Intervals of Cinema

    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, ...
    Paperback (2014)
  • Proletarian Nights
    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...
    Paperback
  • The Antinomies of Realism
    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...
    Paperback
  • Modern Epic

    Modern Epic

    “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...
    Paperback

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