[Reader-list] [Announcements] Ranciere in Delhi

[Mitoo Das]

*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.

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


Jacques Rancière is a well known philosopher and writer. As a young 
student, Rancière, co-authored Reading Capital (1968), with the Marxist 
philosopher Louis Althusser. Rancière later broke with Althusser over 
the 1968 uprising in France. Since the 1970s Rancière 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).

Rancière 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  
Rancière'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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Hope you will make yourself available for the event.

Best,
Mitoo Das
Programme Coordinator
Sarai, CSDS
29-Rajpur Road
Civil Lines
Delhi- 110 054


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