Aesthetics and Its Discontents

by Jacques Ranciere

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Aesthetics is not a politics by accident but in essence. But this politics operates in the unresolved tension between two opposed forms of politics: the first consists in transforming art into forms of collective life, the second in preserving from all forms of militant or commercial compromise the autonomy that makes it a promise of emancipation.
  • ISBN10 0745646301
  • ISBN13 9780745646305
  • Publish Date 17 July 2009
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Polity Press
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 176
  • Language English