Jacques Ranciere; edited and translated by Steven Corcoran
pt. I. The aesthetics of politics. Ten theses on politics -- Does democracy mean something? -- Who is the subject of the rights of man? -- Communism: from actuality to inactuality -- The people or the multitudes? -- Bio-politics or politics? -- September 11 and afterwards: a rupture in the symbolic order? -- Of war as the supreme form of advanced plutocratic consensus -- pt. II. The politics of aesthetics. The aesthetic revolution and its outcomes -- The paradoxes of political art -- The politics of literature -- The monument and its confidences, or Deleuze and art's capacity of 'resistance' -- The ethical turn of aesthetics and politics -- pt. III. Response to critics. The use of distinctions