Chronicles of Consensual Times

Jacques Ranciere taught at the University of Paris VIII, France, from 1969 to 2000, occupying the Chair of Aesthetics and Politics from 1990 until his retirement. Steven Corcoran is the editor and translator of Alain Badiou's Polemics (Verso, 2006) and Jacques Ranciere's Hatred of Democracy (Verso, 2007). He is currently completing his doctoral studies in Continental Philosophy at the University of New South Wales, Australia.

"This collection shows us Jacques Rancière at his best. The chronicle is ideally suited for his style of thinking. Rancière philosophizes with a fine razor blade to take apart all the presuppositions behind our present-day consensus yet the effect is as fatal and irreversible as if he had used a sledge hammer." - Bruno Bosteels, Cornell University, USA

• Preface; The Head and the Stomach January 1996; Borges in Sarajevo March 1996; Fin de siecle and the New Millenary May 1996; Cold-blooded Racism July 1996; The Latest Enemy November 1996; The Grounded Plane January 1997; Dialectic in the Dialectic August 1997; Voyage to the Country of the Last Sociologists November 1997; Justice in the Past April 1998; A Crisis of Art or a Crisis of Thought? July 1998; Is Cinema to Blame? March 1999; The Nameless War May 1999; One's Right to the Image Can Destroy Another's October 1999; The Syllogism of Corruption October 2000; Voici/Voila: The Future of Images January 2001; From Facts to Interpretations: The New Quarrel over the Holocaust April 2001; From One Kind of Torture to Another June 2002; The Film Director, the People and the Governors August 2001; Time, Words, War November 2001; Philosophy in the Bathroom January 2002; Prisoners of the Infinite March 2002; From One May to Another June 2002; Victor Huge: Ambiguities of a Bicentenary August 2002; The Machine and the Foetus January 2003; A Dead Author or an Artist with too much Life? April 2003; The Logic of Amnesia June 2003; The Insecurity Principle September 2003; New Fictions of Evil November 2003; Criminal Democracy March 2004; The Troubling Heritage of Michel Foucault June 2004; The New Reasons for Lying August 2004; Beyond Art? October 2004; The Politics of Images February 2005; Democracy and its Doctors May 2005; Index.