Introduction: Jacques Rancière: Penseur de l'envers / Gabriel Rockhill and
Phil Watts
Part One: History
1. Historicizing Untimeliness / Kristen Ross
2. The Lessons of Jacques Rancière: Knowledge and Power after the Storm /
Alain Badiou
3. Sophisticated Continuities and Historical Discontinuities, Or, Why Not
Protagoras? / Eric Méchoulan
4. The Classics and Critical Theory in Postmodern France: The Case of
Jacques Rancière / Giuseppina Mecchia
5. Rancière and Metaphysics / Jean-Luc Nancy
Part Two: Politics
6. What is Political Philosophy? Contextual Notes / Étienne Balibar
7. Rancière in South Carolina / Todd May
8. Political Agency and the Ambivalence of the Sensible / Yves Citton
9. Staging Equality: Rancière's Theatrocracy and the Limits of Anarchic
Equality / Peter Hallward
10. Rancière's Leftism, Or, Politics and Its Discontents / Bruno Bosteels
11. Jacques Rancière's Ethical Turn and the Thinking of Discontents /
Solange Guénoun
Part Three. Aesthetics
12. The Politics of Aesthetics: Political History and the Hermeneutics of
Art / Gabriel Rockhill
13. Cinema and Its Discontents / Tom Conley
14. Politicizing Art in Rancière and Deleuze: The Case of Postcolonial
Literature / Raji Vallury
15. Impossible Speech Acts: Jacques Rancière's Erich Auerbach / Andrew
Parker
16. Style indirect libre / James Swenson
Afterword: The Method of Equality: An Answer to Some Questions / Jacques
Rancière
