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Rancière's Aesthetic Revolution and Its Modernist Residues

Publication at Faculty of Arts |
2012

Abstract

In this paper, I present the conception of aesthetic revolution by the French philosopher Jacques Rancière and then develop a criticism of it. Rancière is an outspoken critic of modernist interpretations of art, but his own philosophy includes implicit modernist residues.

These become appartent especially when one focuses on the absence of any discussion of aesthetic value and judgement in Rancière's aesthetics.