{"product_id":"the-philosopher-and-his-poor-paperback","title":"The Philosopher and His Poor - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJacques Rancière\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eAndrew Parker\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eJohn Drury\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat has philosophy to do with the poor? If, as has often been supposed, the poor have no time for philosophy, then why have philosophers always made time for them? Why is the history of philosophy--from Plato to Karl Marx to Jean-Paul Sartre to Pierre Bourdieu--the history of so many figures of the poor: plebes, men of iron, the demos, artisans, common people, proletarians, the masses? Why have philosophers made the shoemaker, in particular, a remarkably ubiquitous presence in this history? Does philosophy itself depend on this thinking about the poor? If so, can it ever refrain from thinking \u003ci\u003efor\u003c\/i\u003e them?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJacques Rancière's \u003ci\u003eThe Philosopher and His Poor\u003c\/i\u003e meditates on these questions in close readings of major texts of Western thought in which the poor have played a leading role--sometimes as the objects of philosophical analysis, sometimes as illustrations of philosophical argument. Published in France in 1983 and made available here for the first time in English, this consummate study assesses the consequences for Marx, Sartre, and Bourdieu of Plato's admonition that workers should do \"nothing else\" than their own work. It offers innovative readings of these thinkers' struggles to elaborate a philosophy of the poor. Presenting a left critique of Bourdieu, the terms of which are largely unknown to an English-language readership, \u003ci\u003eThe Philosopher and His Poor\u003c\/i\u003e remains remarkably timely twenty years after its initial publication.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Philosopher and His Poor \"is a remarkable work. Jacques Ranciere demonstrates the recurrence throughout the history of western thought of a particular self-constituting move: the freedom and the right to think are premised upon a situating and excluding of those whose task is other than to think, what Ranciere calls 'the poor.'\"--Derek Attridge, author of \"The Singularity of Literature\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJacques Rancière is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris-VIII (St. Denis). His many books include \u003ci\u003eThe Nights of Labor: The Workers' Dream in Nineteenth-Century France\u003c\/i\u003e;\u003ci\u003e The Ignorant Schoolmaster: Five Lessons in Intellectual Emancipation\u003c\/i\u003e;\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eDisagreement: Politics and Philosophy.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Andrew Parker is Professor of English at Amherst College. He is a coeditor of \u003ci\u003eNationalisms and Sexualities \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003ePerformativity and Performance.\u003c\/i\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 247\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 8.9 x 5.8 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 23, 2004\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53026058305843,"sku":"9780822332749","price":52.29,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/ILeAqoXpXc9780822332749.webp?v=1770235277","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/the-philosopher-and-his-poor-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}