Preface  vii
Acknowledgments  xiii
Introduction. The Manner of Impropriety  1
1. Rancière's Partager  19
2. Rancière's Police Poetics  40
3. Rancière's Style  63
4. Rancière's Democratic Realism  85
Conclusion. Demotic Modernisms, Popular Occupations   99
Notes  105
Bibliography  129
Index  137
 

“To understand Rancière, Panagia argues, is to set aside the search for prescriptive constructs and instead embrace the aesthetic sensibilities that create the world. Recommended.” — L. A. Wilkinson, Choice

“To understand Rancière, Panagia argues, is to set aside the search for prescriptive constructs and instead embrace the aesthetic sensibilities that create the world. Recommended.” —L. A. Wilkinson, Choice

"Against the politics of belonging that infuses so much democratic theory today, Davide Panagia offers a characteristically bold reading of Rancière that makes us feel the force of a very different path to emancipatory democratic politics. Grounded in an aesthetics and politics of impropriety, Rancière's Sentiments shows the transformative potential of the unauthorized sensibilities, words, and acts of those who 'have no part' in the scenes of democratic politics conventionally conceived. An exciting piece of work." — Sharon R. Krause, author of, Freedom beyond Sovereignty: Reconstructing Liberal Individualism

"Proposing a singular and provocative reading of Rancière's oeuvre, Davide Panagia refuses hermeneutics in favor of a focus on dispositions, style, modes of appearance, and arrangement of things that acknowledges the permanence and ubiquity of division while illuminating the productivity, playfulness, and generative quality of lines of division. Panagia offers a reading that seeks to be faithful to the disjunctive moments that inspire Rancière's writings, celebrating scenes of change rather than engagement in philosophical interpretation. Panagia's Rancière does not hold out a theory to overcome inequalities. In its stead Panagia's reading makes visible the power of the makings and doings of anyone and everyone in transforming sensibilities, opening up new possibilities of imagination: in short, enacting the aesthetics of politics." — Aletta J. Norval, author of, Aversive Democracy: Inheritance and Originality in the Democratic Tradition

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