Jacques Rancière (b. 1940) has been prominent among Anglo cultural theorists since the late 1990s. Bringing disparate strands of critique together – aesthetics, politics, literature, and importantly, education – Rancière has since the early 2000s also become influential among educational theorists. Rancière studied philosophy under his mentor, the structuralist/Marxist Louis Althusser, at the École Normal Supérieure in Paris. After publishing Lire le Capital with Althusser, however, Rancière turned to denounce Althusser with the publication of Althusser’s Lesson (Althusser 1996; Rancière 1974). This latter work reflects on the milieu of student uprisings in 1968 Paris and rejects the pretense of a theorist who guides the masses. In 1999, he joined the philosophy department at the Centre Universitaire de Vincennes, subsequently the University of Paris. He retired from there in 2000, professor emeritus.
Rancière’s work spans the topics of literature, politics, aesthetics, and,...
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Bingham, C. (2016). Rancière and Education. In: Peters, M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Educational Philosophy and Theory. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-287-532-7_497-1
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