Staging the people : the proletarian and his double

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Label

Staging the people : the proletarian and his double

Title remainder

the proletarian and his double

Statement of responsibility

Jacques Rancière ; translated by David Fernbach

Title variation

Proletarian and his double

Creator

• Rancière, Jacques

Contributor

• Fernbach, David

Translator

• Fernbach, David

Subject

• Proletariat
• Working class
• Working class -- History

Language

• eng
• fre
• eng

Summary

These essays from the 1970s mark the inception of the distinctive project that Jacques Rancière has pursued across forty years, with four interwoven themes: the study of working-class identity, of its philosophical interpretation, of "heretical" knowledge and of the relationship between work and leisure. For the short-lived journal Les Révoltes Logiques, Rancière wrote on subjects ranging across a hundred years, from the California Gold Rush to trade-union collaboration with fascism, from early feminism to the "dictatorship of the proletariat, " from the respectability of the Paris Exposition to the disrespectable carousing outside the Paris gates. Rancière characteristically combines telling historical detail with deep insight into the development of the popular mind. In a new preface, he explains why such "rude words" as "people, " "factory, " "proletarians" and "revolution" still need to be spoken. -- Back cover

Cataloging source

BTCTA

Dewey number

305.562

Index

index present

Language note

Translated from the French

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography