{"product_id":"modern-times-temporality-in-art-and-politics-hardcover","title":"Modern Times: Temporality in Art and Politics - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJacques Ranciere\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe critique of modernist ideology from France's leading radical theorist\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this book Jacques Rancière radicalises his critique of modernism and its postmodern appendix. He contrasts their unilinear and exclusive time with the interweaving of temporalities at play in modern processes of emancipation and artistic revolutions, showing how this plurality itself refers to the double dimension of time. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTime is more than a line drawn from the past to the future. It is a form of life, marked by the ancient hierarchy between those who have time and those who do not. This hierarchy, continued in the Marxist notion of the vanguard and nakedly exhibited in Clement Greenberg's modernism, still governs a present which clings to the fable of historical necessity and its experts. In opposition to this, Rancière shows how the break with the hierarchical conception of time, formulated by Emerson in his vision of the new poet, implies a completely different idea of the modern. He sees the fulfilment of this in the two arts of movement, cinema and dance, which at the beginning of the twentieth century abolished the opposition between free and mechanical people, at the price of exposing the rift between the revolution of artists and that of strategists.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJacques Rancière\u003c\/b\u003e is emeritus professor at the University of Paris 8 where he taught from 1968 to 2000. His two main domains of research are social and intellectual emancipation and the modern transformations of art, literary fiction and aesthetic thinking. He has explored those domains and their interrelations in more than forty books among which the most significant are: \u003ci\u003eThe Ignorant Schoolmaster. Five Lessons on Intellectual Emancipation \u003c\/i\u003e(Stanford University Press, 1991), \u003ci\u003eProletarian Nights. The Workers' Dream in 19th Century France \u003c\/i\u003e(Verso, 2012), \u003ci\u003eAisthesis. Scenes from the Aesthetic Regime of Art \u003c\/i\u003e(Verso, 2013) and \u003ci\u003eThe Edges of Fiction \u003c\/i\u003e(Polity 2020) .\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 144\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 8.8 x 5.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 01, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51767358521632,"sku":"9781839763199","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/9c7fcdd560c2e595e5d4445ac0210456.webp?v=1780309918","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/modern-times-temporality-in-art-and-politics-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}