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Dissensus, On Politics and Aesthetics
DISSENSUS

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DISSENSUS
On Politics and Aesthetics
Jacques Ranciere

Edited and Translated by Steven Corcoran

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Ranciere, Jacques
Dissensus

on politics and aesthetics I Jacques Ranciere , edited and translated

by Steven Corcoran p em
Includes index
ISBN-13: 978-1-84706-445-5
ISBN-10 1-84706-445-0
1 Political science--Philosophy 2. Aesthetics--Political aspects
I. Corcoran, Steve II Title
JA71 R36 2010
320.01--dc22

2009023696

Typeset by Newgen Imaging Systems Pvt Ltd, Chennai, India
Printed and bound in Great Britain by the MPG Books Group, Bodmin and
King's Lynn

Contents

Acknowledgements

vii

Editor's Introduction

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