With a critical eye, Gabriel Rockhill guides you through complex debates in history, politics and aesthetics, giving you an overview of key issues and central figures, including Foucault, Derrida, Castoriadis, Badiou and Ranciere. Rockhill also questions the stereotypes of prominent figures and Intellectual movements. Instead of hiding behind these towering intellectuals, Rockhill stakes out positions in relationship to them and formulates precise arguments in favour of a new understanding of the historical relationship between art and politics.

Remaps the topography of contemporary philosophy, drawing on extensive knowledge of untranslated material and marginalised figures. Critically reconsiders the philosophy of difference through the work of thinkers such as Badiou, Bourdieu, Castoriadis, Fabiani, Laruelle, Pinto and Ranciere. Develops alternative historical models, beyond the paradigms found in Marcuse, Sartre, Barthes and Randere, to rethink the relationship between art and politics.

About the Author
Gabriel Rockhill is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Villanova University, Directeur de programme at the College International de Philosophic in Paris, and Founder and Director of the Critical Theory Workshop at the Universite Paris Descartes.


Book Information
ISBN 9781474425858
Author Gabriel Rockhill
Format Paperback
Page Count 296
Imprint Edinburgh University Press
Publisher Edinburgh University Press