... of Rancière's article “The Thread of the Novel” in this context and situate the other articles in this issue (by Elaine Freedgood, Emily Steinlight, Raji Vallury, Sarah Winter, and Davide Panagia) in relation to the same quandary. Introduction: Jacques Rancie`re and the Novel TIMOTHY BEWES Jacques Rancie...

... Rancie`re begins an article titled ‘‘A Few Remarks on the Method of Jacques Rancie`re’’ as follows: When it comes to the appreciation ofa thinker, there are two levels of investigation. One can examine his/her ideas, test their consistency, compare them with other thinkers’ ideas and judge...

..., Vent d’Est Jacques Rancie`re is a prolific writer who claims he has nothing to teach (Bosteels 131; Chambers ix). How, then, might we proceed to read his theoretical writings? Though Rancie`re’s writings have enjoyed increased reception and engagement in Anglo-American political theory circles...

... Press Writing, Repetition, Displacement: An Interview with Jacques Rancie`re ABRAHAM GEIL In this interview, Jacques Rancie`re clarifies a number of the central concepts and underlying polemics that run throughout his considerable body of work. Touching on key aspects...

... a few suggestions about the politics of fiction. To that end, I will call on the insight of Jacques Rancie`re in order to challenge two theoretical models that readily absorb the stories of disastrously thwarted intentions and devalued lives for which Hardy, like Gustave Flaubert and E´ mile Zola...

... 211 some cases; a philosopher in others, in the arguments of Jacques Rancie`re.1 The poor of the novelist, I will argue, are both the literally and subjectively poor char- acters of Mary Barton—fictional characters in the history of the novel more gener- ally who must, for generic logistical...

... and literary character who haunts modern fiction: the child of the plebeian who, like Emma Bovary or Septimus Warren Smith, proves able to live any form of experience. The Thread of the Novel JACQUES RANCIE` RE ‘‘A wandering thread, lightly joining one thing to another...

... . The Magistrate, the Camp, and the Novel: J.M.CoetzeeandtheSubjectofHumanRights SARAH WINTER Everything hinges on these few lines that separate the good proper to politics—justice— from all other forms of good. —Jacques Rancie`re, Disagreement: Politics and Philosophy...

... such values exclude’’ (38). The aesthetic, in other words, makes pragmatism thinkable as a mode of governmentality. The subsequent chapters pursue this insight through several forms and genres, arguing that the aesthetic decision makes space in the text for what Jacques Rancie`re calls the subject...

... Negri, Ernesto Laclau, Jacques Rancie`re, Judith Butler, and Alain Badiou—are regularly quoted and discussed in academic essays on literary and cultural studies. An element common to all these thinkers is the confrontation of institutional forms of democracy and the political (parliament, parties...

... my sense of the political here from Jacques Rancie`re, who derives in Disagreement and other works what we could call the political paradox of democ- racy from the third book of Plato’s Laws. After listing the first six ‘‘principles on which men rule and obey in cities which include the power...

.... For, indeed, if the novel is precisely not about genealogy but about social reproduction, then the narrative of self-formation and demos formation within the novel contains an important aesthetic dimension. To follow a line of thought concerning the aesthetic proposed by Jacques Rancie`re, we might...