Jacques Rancière and the Novel

Jacques Rancière has long been recognized as one of the most important philosophers currently working on questions of aesthetics. His writing has reverberated widely, both geographically and across the disciplines, taking in political theory, the philosophy of work and labor, ?lm, literature, contemporary painting, and photography. Over the past decade his work has undertaken a sustained, multidisciplinary (or transdisciplinary) re?ection on the politics of aesthetics. This intervention has achieved nothing less than a recon?guration of the relations between ideology and pedagogy, the formation of the disciplines, and the politics of artistic production and reception.