The politics of literature is not the same as the politics of writers and their commitments, nor does it concern the way writers represent social structures or

"Jacques Ranciere has continually unsettled political discourse, particularly through his questioning of aesthetic "distributions of the sensible," which config

These 13 essays consolidate and critique Ranciere's work on literature, from his archival investigations of the literary efforts of 19th-century workers to his

The French philosopher Jacques Rancière has influenced disciplines from history and philosophy to political theory, literature, art history, and film studies.

Jacques Rancière’s work is increasingly central to several debates across the humanities. Distributions of the Sensible confronts a question at the heart of