The Silent Revolution
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4387488 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Gabriel Rockhill (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2004 |
| Volume | 33 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 54 |
| Publication date | 2004-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | SubStance (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0049-2426 • E-ISSN: 1527-2095 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/sub.2004.0014 |
| OpenAlex | W2038136633 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 3 |
Jacques Rancière's circuitous response to the question "what is literature?" in the introduction to La Parole muette is in many ways indicative of the historical methodology operative in his most recent work on art and politics. The concept of literature, he claims, is at once absolutely self evident and radically undetermined. Rather than invoking this paradox as a Heideggerian justification for investigating the essential question of our age, Rancière uses it as a vehicle for analyzing the intellectual constructs at work in the various attempts to isolate the nature of literature. The empirical approach, for example, accepts the self-evidence of the historical conventions that establish a well-circumscribed catalogue of literary works. This positivistic attitude is countered by a theoretical definition that posits the existence of a literary essence irreducible to the simple bibliographical delimitations inherent in textual classification. Instead of searching for a passage between the Scylla of positivism and the Charybdis of speculation, Rancière is interested in the historical conditions that render such a choice possible. In other words, he refuses to give a straightforward answer to the question "what is literature?" in order to resituate the question itself in its historical context and examine the various factors that determine possible responses
Context (archaeology) · Epistemology · Order (exchange) · Political science · Politics · Positivism · Simple (philosophy) · Sociology · Speculation · Contemporary art, education, critique · Critical Theory and Political Philosophy · History · Law · Marxism and Critical Theory · Philosophy · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,19 |
| Citation span | 2010 - 2013 (4) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |