Patrick M. Bray - Understanding Rancire, Understanding Modernism

Understanding Rancire,
Understanding Modernism

Understanding Philosophy, Understanding Modernism

The aim of each volume in Understanding Philosophy, Understanding Modernism is to understand a philosophical thinker more fully through literary and cultural modernism and consequently to understand literary modernism better through a key philosophical figure. In this way, the series also rethinks the limits of modernism, calling attention to lacunae in modernist studies and sometimes in the philosophical work under examination.

Series Editors:

Paul Ardoin, S. E. Gontarski, and Laci Mattison

Volumes in the Series:

Understanding Bergson, Understanding Modernism
edited by Paul Ardoin, S. E. Gontarski, and Laci Mattison

Understanding Deleuze, Understanding Modernism
edited by Paul Ardoin, S. E. Gontarski, and Laci Mattison

Understanding Wittgenstein, Understanding Modernis
medited by Anat Matar

Understanding Foucault, Understanding Modernism
edited by David Scott

Understanding Rancire, Understanding Modernism (forthcoming)
edited by Patrick M. Bray

Understanding James, Understanding Modernism (forthcoming)
edited by David H. Evans

Understanding Cavell, Understanding Modernism (forthcoming)
edited by Paola Marrati

Understanding Blanchot, Understanding Modernism (forthcoming)
edited by Christopher Langlois

Understanding Merleau-Ponty, Understanding Modernism (forthcoming)
edited by Ariane Mildenberg

Understanding Derrida, Understanding Modernism (forthcoming)
edited by Jean-Michel Rabat

Understanding Rancire,
Understanding Modernism

Edited by

Patrick M. Bray

Bloomsbury Academic

An imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Inc

Contents

Patrick M. Bray

Emily Apter

Bettina Lerner

Leon Sachs

Margaret C. Flinn

Cary Hollinshead-Strick

Giuseppina Mecchia

David F. Bell

Tom Conley

Tina Chanter

Suzanne Guerlac

Alison Ross

Marina van Zuylen

Silvia L. Lpez

Daniel Brant

Audrey vrard

Zakir Paul

Alison James

Robert St. Clair

Translated from the French by Patrick M. Bray

Patrick M. Bray is associate professor of French at Ohio State University. He has published on critical theory, space in literature, as well as film. He is the coeditor with Phillip John Usher of a volume of LEsprit Crateur called Building the Louvre: Architectures of Politics and Art. His book, The Novel Map: Space and Subjectivity in Nineteenth-Century French Fiction was published by Northwestern University Press in 2013.

Emily Apter is professor of comparative literature and French at New York University. She is the editor of the book series Translation/Transnation at Princeton University Press. She is the author of numerous books including Against World Literature: On the Politics of Untranslatability (Verso, 2013) and Feminizing the Fetish: Psychoanalysis and Narrative Obsession in Turn-of-the-Century France (Cornell University Press, 1991). She has a book forthcoming from Verso Press entitled Politics small p: Towards a Theory of Unexceptional Politics.

David F. Bell is professor of French studies at Duke University and serves as the coeditor of SubStance. His work examines critical theory and narrative, as well as science and technology. His books include Real Time: Accelerating Narrative from Balzac to Zola (University of Illinois Press, 2004) and Circumstances: Chance in the Literary Text (University of Nebraska Press 1993).

Daniel Brant earned a PhD in French from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has published articles on Francophone Caribbean literature and culture from Guadeloupe and Haiti.

Tina Chanter is head of the School of Humanities at Kingston University London. She has published widely on questions of aesthetics, politics, sexuality, race, and class in film, literature, and philosophy. She is the author of Whose Antigone? The Tragic Marginalization of Slavery (SUNY Albany Press, 2011) and The Picture of Abjection: Film, Fetish, and the Nature of Difference (Indiana University Press, 2008).

Tom Conley is Abbott Lawrence Lowell professor of romance studies and a professor of visual and environmental studies at Harvard University. He is the author of seven books on the intersection of literature and the graphic imagination, on French film, on cartography, and on Renaissance culture.

Audrey vrard is assistant professor of French at Fordham University. She is currently working on a book manuscript, provisionally titled Precarious Militancy: French Social Documentary Cinema (19952015). She has published several articles and essays on French documentary cinema in Contemporary French Civilization, Jump Cut, Working USA, and more recently, Nottingham French Studies. She also contributed to Directory of World Cinema: France (eds T. Palmer and C. Michael; London: Intellect, 2013) and The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Imperialism and Anti-imperialism (eds. E. Ness and Z. Cope; London: Palgrave, 2015).

Margaret C. Flinn is associate professor French at Ohio State University. She has published on visual culture in France from the interwar period to the present. Her book The Social Architecture of French Cinema, 192939 was published by Liverpool University Press in 2014.

Suzanne Guerlac is professor of French at UC Berkeley. Her work explores cultural ideologies and articulations between literature and philosophy. She is the author of several books including Thinking in Time: An Introduction to Henri Bergson (Cornell University Press, 2006) and Literary Polemics: Batallie, Sartre, Valry, Breton (Stanford University Press, 1997) (cowinner of the Modern Language Associations Scaglione Prize).

Cary Hollinshead-Strick is assistant professor of comparative literature and English at the American University of Paris. She specializes in the history of performance, theater, and media.

Alison James is associate professor at the University of Chicago. Her first book, Constraining Chance (Northwestern University Press, 2009), studied the tensions between chance and determinism in the works of Georges Perec. Her second book project examines the documentary imagination in French literature.

Bettina Lerner is assistant professor of French and deputy chair of the Department of Foreign Languages & Literatures at City College CUNY. Her work focuses on popular culture in nineteenth-century France. Her book, The Invention of the Popular: Literature and Culture in Nineteenth-Century France, is forthcoming from Ashgate.

Silvia L. Lpez is professor in the Department of Spanish and the Program in Latin American Studies at Carleton College. Her work focuses on literary and social modernity in Latin America as well as cultural criticism. She has published articles on Adorno, Lukcs, Benjamin, Garcia Canclini, Schwarz, Dalton, and Argueta.

Giuseppina Mecchia is associate professor of French and Italian at the University of Pittsburgh. She has published on several topics related to French and Italian modernity, critical theory, and space and time.