The Philosopher and His Poor

Jacques Ranciere is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris-VIII (St. Denis). His many books include "The Nights of Labor: The Workers' Dream in Nineteenth-Century France";" The Ignorant Schoolmaster: Five Lessons in Intellectual Emancipation";""and "Disagreement: Politics and Philosophy."Andrew Parker is Professor of English at Amherst College. He is a coeditor of "Nationalisms and Sexualities "and "Performativity and Performance."Jacques Ranciere is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris-VIII (St. Denis). His many books include "The Nights of Labor: The Workers' Dream in Nineteenth-Century France";" The Ignorant Schoolmaster: Five Lessons in Intellectual Emancipation";""and "Disagreement: Politics and Philosophy."Andrew Parker is Professor of English at Amherst College. He is a coeditor of "Nationalisms and Sexualities "and "Performativity and Performance."

""The Philosopher and His Poor "is a remarkable work. Jacques Ranciere demonstrates the recurrence throughout the history of western thought of a particular self-constituting move: the freedom and the right to think are premised upon a situating and excluding of those whose task is other than to think, what Ranciere calls 'the poor.'"--Derek Attridge, author of "The Singularity of Literature"