Ranciere’s ‘literary animals’. The conditions of possibility of ‘political subjectivation’
(2019)
Journal Article
Lane, J. (in press). Ranciere’s ‘literary animals’. The conditions of possibility of ‘political subjectivation’. Textual Practice,
Jacques Rancière re-inflects Aristotle's famous maxim to claim that 'man is a political animal because he is a literary animal'. He goes on to relate this characteristic of 'literarity' to Plato's description of written language as an 'orphan letter'... Read More about Ranciere’s ‘literary animals’. The conditions of possibility of ‘political subjectivation’.