[Reader-list] Jacques Ranciere: Revisiting Nights of Labour

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Jacques Ranciere: Revisiting Nights of Labour

Sarai invites you to a public talk by renowned philosopher Jacques  
Ranciere, the release of the Hindi translation of his book Nights of  
Labour: Workers' Dream in 19th Century France. (Sarvahara Raatein:  
Unneesaveen sadi ke Frans mein Mazdoor Swapna). The book has been  
translated from the English by Abhay Kumar Dube.  This the first in a  
series of translations of outstanding texts to be published by Sarai- 
CSDS and Vani Prakashan.

Date:  Friday, 6th February, 2009
Time: 6:00 pm
Venue: CSDS , 29 Rajpur Road

Workshop and Roundtable with Ranciere.

Saturday 7th February
Time: 10 am
Venue: CSDS , 29 Rajpur Road

Jacques Ranciere is a well known philosopher and writer. As a young  
student, Ranciere, co-authored Reading Capital (1968), with the  
Marxist philosopher Louis Althusser. Ranciere later broke with  
Althusser over the 1968 uprising in France. Since the 1970s Ranciere  
has produced a number of remarkable texts that range from working  
class history, philosophy, education, politics, and aesthetics. His  
books include  The Ignorant Schoolmaster: Five Lessons in Intellectual  
Emancipation(1991), The Names of History: On the Poetics of Knowledge  
(1994), The Politics of Aesthetics: The Distribution of the Sensible  
Tr. Gabriel Rockhill (2004),The Future of the Image (2007).

Ranciere wrote The Nights of Labour after years of archival work. It  
traces the world of worker intellectuals in 19th century France, who,  
through their poems, music, letters, produced a world that did not  
celebrate work as in conventional socialist  texts, but a life outside  
it. Radical in its style and argument, Nights of Labour, offers not  
just a revision of working class history, but the relation between  
politics, knowledge, aesthetics and equality, all of which have become  
topics of  Ranciere's future books.

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This event has been made possible by the support of the French  
Embassy, Delhi.
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