In conversation with Jacques Rancière

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Meet French philosopher Jacques Rancière in conversation with Nikolaj Lübecker (St John's College, Oxford)
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Please note that the conversation will be in English.

A leading philosopher and specialist of Marxist political philosophy and aesthetics, Jacques Rancière significantly contributed to 20^th century political theories with major works including La Nuit des prolétaires (1981; The Nights of Labor: The Workers’s Dream in Nineteenth-Century France), Partage du sensible: esthétique et politique (2000; The Politics of Aesthetics: The Distribution of the Sensible), and Le Spectateur émancipé (2008; The Emancipated Spectator).

Rancière will discuss his influential writings on aesthetics and politics, the relation between emancipation and education, and the changes he has witnessed in the French intellectual landscape over the past decades.

Nikolaj Lübecker is professor of French and Film Studies at the University of Oxford. His research interests include contemporary cinema (The Feel-Bad Film (2015)) and modern French poetry (Twenty-First-Century Symbolism: Verlaine, Baudelaire, Mallarmé (2022)).