Aisthesis

Scenes from the Aesthetic Regime of Art

By: Jacques Ranciere, Zakir Paul (Translator)

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Paperback | 23 July 2019 | Edition Number 1

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Composed in a series of scenes, Aisthesis - Ranciere's definitive statement on the aesthetic - takes its reader from Dresden in 1764 to New York in 1941.

Along the way, we view the Belvedere Torso with Winckelmann, accompany Hegel to the museum and Mallarme to the Folies-Bergere, attend a lecture by Emerson, visit exhibitions in Paris and New York, factories in Berlin, and film sets in Moscow and Hollywood. Ranciere uses these sites and events - some famous, others forgotten - to ask what becomes art and what comes of it. He shows how a regime of artistic perception and interpretation was constituted and transformed by erasing the specificities of the different arts, as well as the borders that separated them from ordinary experience.

This incisive study provides a history of artistic modernity far removed from the conventional postures of modernism.

About the Authors

Jacques Ranciere is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris-VIII. His books include The Politics of Aesthetics, On the Shores of Politics, Short Voyages to the Land of the People, The Nights of Labor, Staging the People, and The Emancipated Spectator.

Zakir Paul is a doctoral candidate in comparative literature at Princeton University. He most recently translated a collection of Blanchot's political writings.

Industry Reviews

"Exhilarating... Ranciere's most thoroughgoing polemic against the received idea of modernism."
Artforum

"Jacques Ranciere's Aisthesis transforms the field of aesthetic philosophy."
Liberation

"French philosopher Jacques Ranciere is a refreshing read for anyone concerned with what art has to do with politics and society."
Art Review

"In the face of impossible attempts to proceed with progressive ideas within the terms of postmodernist discourse, Ranciere shows a way out of the malaise."
Liam Gillick

"It's clear that Jacques Ranciere is relighting the flame that was extinguished for many - that is why he serves as such a signal reference today."
Thomas Hirschhorn

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