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Jacques Ranciere

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Jacques Rancière is emeritus professor at the University of Paris 8 where he taught from 1968 to 2000. His two main domains of research are social and intellectual emancipation and the modern transformations of art, literary fiction and aesthetic thinking. He has explored those domains and their interrelations in more than forty books among which the most significant are: The Ignorant Schoolmaster. Five Lessons on Intellectual Emancipation (Stanford University Press, 1991), Proletarian Nights. The Workers’ Dream in 19th Century France (Verso, 2012) , Aisthesis. Scenes from the Aesthetic Regime of Art (Verso, 2013) and The Edges of Fiction (Polity 2020) .