![]() ![]() We can also cite the long, sporadic dialog he has held with the poetry of William Wordsworth-starting with Short Voyages to the Land of the People -as one of the forerunners of what the philosopher would soon identify as a new “distribution of the sensible” put to effect in the wake of the French Revolution. For example, there is the importance given to the English Civil War in his book. It can also be added that he numbers among the relatively rare thinkers in France who address British art and culture, devoting considerable attention in his work to these subjects. From working class memory and popular education to the multiple inventions of modern and contemporary art, he has ceaselessly explored discursive practices and fields of study traditionally excluded from the narrow bounds of academic philosophy, particularly in France. He is also one of the most concerned with confronting philosophy, its history and authority with various forms of otherness. Jacques Rancière is without dispute one of the most fundamentally cross-disciplinary French thinkers since Foucault. ![]()
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