Heretical history and the poetics of knowledge

Watts, Philip

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“…14 I here only touch on aspects of The Names of History relevant to the article. For excellent overviews, see Nikulin (2012), Thomson (2011), Davis (2010: Chapter 2) and Watts (2010).…”

Section: Rancière's Scathing Reading Of the Eighteenth Brumairementioning

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Borrowing practices in modern revolution-making: from Marx’s The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte to Rancière’s The Names of History

Pauwels

2023

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Marx’s The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte has served as a locus classicus for postmodern interpretations of Marxism’s contemporary legacy and relevancy due to its thematisation of the performative, imaginary, psychological and linguistic aspects of revolutionary politics. This work has been used to redeem and rethink Marxian revolutionary politics along postmodern lines beyond its orthodox varieties, positioning Marx as an important forerunner of contemporary “post-Marxian” radical philosophy. I here argue that Jacques Rancière should feature prominently in this scholarship on the so-called postmodern Marx. Although having first offered a scathing reading of The Eighteenth Brumaire in The Philosopher and His Poor (1983), I demonstrate how Rancière offers a more affirmative yet implicit interpretation in The Names of History (1992). By determining the nature, value and potential of Rancière’s poststructuralist reworking of central themes from The Eighteenth Brumaire, I aim to deepen understanding of radical politics’s performative and affective aspects.

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“…14 I here only touch on aspects of The Names of History relevant to the article. For excellent overviews, see Nikulin (2012), Thomson (2011), Davis (2010: Chapter 2) and Watts (2010).…”

Section: Rancière's Scathing Reading Of the Eighteenth Brumairementioning

confidence: 99%

Borrowing practices in modern revolution-making: from Marx’s The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte to Rancière’s The Names of History

Pauwels

2023

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“…Inspired by Jacotot's endorsement of material tools to mediate his students' learning, Rancière found what Deranty () described as “the possibility of grounding his radical–democratic thinking in poetic and artistic practices, in particular, in the radical‐egalitarian potentialities of word‐use, that is, of literature [emphasis added]” (p. 7). Watts () characterized Rancière's () The Names of History: On the Poetics of Knowledge as an explicit defense of literature, noting in particular Rancière's assertion about literature: “All who have no place to speak will take hold of those words and phrases, those argumentations and maxims, subversively constituting a new body of writing” (p. 30). Literature, in other words, could participate in Rancière's radical democratic egalitarian project not by transmitting ideas but by making his assumption of equality a reality as readers seize words and form new texts of their own.…”

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Literary Interpretation as Poetic Translation: Envisioning a Rancièrean Emancipatory Framework for Literature Instruction

Macaluso

2014

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Although the aims of literary study have often been spelled out in ethical terms, scholars have tended to discuss the how of literary interpretation in more ethically neutral terms. Reading pedagogical enactments of two predominant theories of literary interpretation—New Criticism and reader response—through the lens of Rancièrean ethics, I argue that pedagogies of literary interpretation are in need of a more explicitly ethical commitment to readers' emancipation. I, therefore, make the case for an alternative paradigm—poetic translation—that, in its commitment to equality and its resistance to the explicative order, upholds literature's conduciveness to readers' emancipation. I conclude by demonstrating what poetic translation might look like in classroom spaces, noting that a pedagogical framework of poetic translation has the potential to reconfigure more than students' interpretations of texts. As an ethical means to accomplishing what are often claimed to be ethical and emancipatory aims of literary study, poetic translation can function as a profound intervention into pedagogical relations within the English language arts classroom and even human relations at large, thereby expanding ways literature can be understood as possessing ethical potential.

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Polityka pisarstwa historycznego i polityka literatury. Hayden White i Jacques Rancière czytają Ericha Auerbacha

Muchowski

2022

Kwart. Hist. Nauki Tech.

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Politics of Historical Writing and the Politics of Literature – Hayden White and Jacques Rancière Read Erich Auerbach Hayden White and Jacques Rancière used Erich Auerbach’s approach to the history of realistic European literature to construct their own theoretical discussions of historical and literary writing. White thus formulated the concepts of a figural relationship, modernist and figural realism, while Rancière critically commented on the undemocratic historiography of the Annales school and sought egalitarian writings in Western literature. White’s and Rancière’s readings of Auerbach will be used to compare their two theoretical approaches. The purpose of this analysis will be, first, to critically compare some of their contributions, and second, to incorporate Rancière’s claims into the English-language debate on the theory of history. I will try to answer the following question: how in their commentaries on the works of Auerbach White and Rancière defined the relationship between politics and historical and literary writing; how they articulate the politics of historical writing (White) and the politics of literature (Rancière).

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Heretical history and the poetics of knowledge

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Borrowing practices in modern revolution-making: from Marx’s The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte to Rancière’s The Names of History

Borrowing practices in modern revolution-making: from Marx’s The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte to Rancière’s The Names of History

Literary Interpretation as Poetic Translation: Envisioning a Rancièrean Emancipatory Framework for Literature Instruction

Polityka pisarstwa historycznego i polityka literatury. Hayden White i Jacques Rancière czytają Ericha Auerbacha

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