03809nam a22005175i 4500 978-3-031-59880-7 DE-He213 20251030112923.0 cr nn 008mamaa 240831s2024 sz | s |||| 0|eng d 9783031598807 978-3-031-59880-7 10.1007/978-3-031-59880-7 doi B790-5802 HPC bicssc PHI031000 bisacsh QDH thema F. Lane, Jeremy. author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 83287 Rancière's Counter-Sociology [electronic resource] : Politics, History, Education / by Jeremy F. Lane. 1st ed. 2024. Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. IX, 261 p. online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda 1. Introduction -- 2. Sociology -- 3. Marxism -- 4. History -- 5. Education -- 6. Populism? -- 7. Conclusion. Jacques Rancière is almost unique amongst contemporary thinkers in his consistent hostility to sociologically informed modes of interpretation. This hostility is not limited to his detailed critiques of Pierre Bourdieu—it characterises his thinking about politics, emancipation, democracy, history, aesthetics, and social class; it extends into a rejection of Marxist or marxisant modes of analysis. For Rancière’s harshest critics, this hostility to sociology reflects an interpretative negligence on his part, an intellectual, political, or moral flaw. Even his more favorable commentators typically upbraid him for failing to specify the historical conditions of possibility of democratic emancipation. This book argues that such reactions are fundamentally mistaken and fail to grasp what is at stake in Rancière’s rejection of sociological modes of enquiry. This rejection is attributable neither to his negligence nor to some moral flaw, and nor is it merely incidental to his thought. On the contrary, Rancière understands sociology to constitute a problematic, a set of assumptions and interpretative procedures whose blind spots must be identified and thought through in order that the possibility of intellectual and political emancipation, of democracy, and of history can be thought at all. Rancière’s thought thus represents a counter-sociology and his rejection of the sociological problematic serves as the positive condition of possibility of his theory of democracy, equality, and emancipation. This new study both clarifies the nature of Rancière’s critique of the sociological problematic and shows what his counter-sociology allows him to think in the domains of politics, history, and education. Jeremy F. Lane is Professor of French & Critical Theory in the Department of Modern Languages & Cultures at the University of Nottingham, UK. Continental Philosophy. 66476 Political science Philosophy. 57588 Critical theory. 58083 Continental Philosophy. 66476 Political Philosophy. 66964 Critical Theory. 58083 SpringerLink (Online service) Springer Nature eBook Printed edition: 9783031598791 Printed edition: 9783031598814 Printed edition: 9783031598821 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-59880-7 ZDB-2-REP ZDB-2-SXPR 62907 62907