{"product_id":"disagreement-jacques-ranciere-9780816628452","title":"Disagreement: Politics And Philosophy","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Is there any such thing as political philosophy?\" So begins this provocative book by one of the foremost figures in Continental thought. Here, Jacques Ranci鑽e brings a new and highly useful set of terms to the vexed debate about political effectiveness and \"the end of politics.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat precisely is at stake in the relationship between \"philosophy\" and the adjective \"political\"? In\u003ci\u003e Disagreement\u003c\/i\u003e, Ranci鑽e explores the apparent contradiction between these terms and reveals the uneasy meaning of their union in the phrase \"political philosophy\"--a juncture related to age-old attempts in philosophy to answer Plato's devaluing of politics as a \"democratic egalitarian\" process.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAccording to Ranci鑽e, the phrase also expresses the paradox of politics itself: the absence of a proper foundation. Politics, he argues, begins when the \"demos\" (the \"excessive\" or unrepresented part of society) seeks to disrupt the order of domination and distribution of goods \"naturalized\" by police and legal institutions. In addition, the notion of \"equality\" operates as a game of contestation that constantly substitutes litigation for political action and community. This game, Ranci鑽e maintains, operates by a primary logic of \"misunderstanding.\" In turn, political philosophy has always tried to substitute the \"politics of truth\" for the politics of appearances.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDisagreement\u003c\/i\u003e investigates the various transformations of this regime of \"truth\" and their effects on practical politics. Ranci鑽e then distinguishes what we mean by \"democracy\" from the practices of a consensual system in order to unravel the ramifications of the fashionable phrase \"the end of politics.\" His conclusions will be of interest to readers concerned with political questions from the broadest to the most specific and local.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jacques Ranciere\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0816628459\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780816628452\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Minnesota Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/15\/2004\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 168\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.53lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.80h x 5.90w x 0.50d","brand":"Jacques Ranciere","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43992497881343,"sku":"9780816628452","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_0a04e1b2-704c-4cc7-bd0c-c927bc8646fa.jpg?v=1683319265","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/disagreement-jacques-ranciere-9780816628452","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}