{"product_id":"aesthetics-and-its-discontents-jacques-rancire-9780745646312","title":"Aesthetics and Its Discontents","description":"Only yesterday aesthetics stood accused of concealing cultural games of social distinction. Now it is considered a parasitic discourse from which artistic practices must be freed. \u003cp\u003e But aesthetics is not a discourse. It is an historical regime of the identification of art. This regime is paradoxical, because it founds the autonomy of art only at the price of suppressing the boundaries separating its practices and its objects from those of everyday life and of making free aesthetic play into the promise of a new revolution.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e This constitutive tension sheds light on the paradoxes and transformations of critical art. It also makes it possible to understand why today's calls to free art from aesthetics are misguided and lead to a smothering of both aesthetics and politics in ethics.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jacques Ranci鑽e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 074564631X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780745646312\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Polity Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/01\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 176\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.41lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.40d","brand":"Jacques Ranci鑽e","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43947074289919,"sku":"9780745646312","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_675acd63-51ed-4288-8e0e-2ca15c64d5b7.jpg?v=1681516560","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/aesthetics-and-its-discontents-jacques-rancire-9780745646312","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}