Egalitarian Moments From Descartes to Ranciere

includes index and biblioraphy

Part I: Subjectivity 1 The good sense of cartesian egaliterianism ....25 A history or, if you prefer, a fable ......25 Descartes`s egalitarianism and the probnlem of separation ....29 The rartionality of a wrong ......35 Woman as other, woman as subject .....37 Toward collective egalitarianism ....42 2 The nothingness of equality: Ranciere`s sartrean existentialism .....51 Marked by sartrean existentialism .....51 The politics of equality ....56 Between the practico-inert and the party .....60 Subjects of contingency .....65 The politics of impossible identification .....72 Part II Aesthetics 3 Modernity, modernism and aesthetic equality ....85 Disagreement and misunderstanding .....85 From mimesis to aesthetics .....92 Breaking with mimetic norms .....94 Mute speech and literary equality .....97 Artistic autonomy and sociology in greenberg ....102 Benjamin`s archaeodernism ....109 The politics of art and technology ......111 Archaeomodernism and metapolitics ......114 Fragmentary emancipation, common sense,and aesthetic equality ....117 4 Aesthetics, inaesthetics and the platonic regime of art .....127 The return from exile ....127 Between aesthetics and inaesthetics ....135 Between aesthetic education and the absolute .....146 Aesthetic emancipation and policing .......149 Schiller`s aesthetic freedom .....153 Schelling on artistic production and practical reason .....158 Monuments and micropolitics ....161 Heterotopias: one world divides into two ....167