The long-awaited translation of Rancière's Mute Speech |
 Mute Speech
Literature, Critical Theory, and Politics
Jacques Rancière
Introduction by Gabriel Rockhill and translated by James Swenson
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Read an excerpt from the Introduction | Gabriel Rockhill on why Ranciere matters
"Mute Speech counts among Jacques Rancière's most intensive and compelling studies of the origins and consequences of modern literature.... Mute Speech invites us to think afresh the philosophical, aesthetic and political dilemmas that ground the modern canon." - Tom Conley, Harvard University
Widely recognized as a seminal work in Rancière's corpus, the translation of which is long overdue, Mute Speech is an intellectual tour de force proposing a new framework for thinking about the history of art and literature. Rancière argues that our current notion of "literature" is a relatively recent creation, having first appeared in the wake of the French Revolution and with the rise of Romanticism. In its rejection of the system of representational hierarchies that had constituted belles-letters, "literature" is founded upon a radical equivalence in which all things are possible expressions of the life of a people. With an analysis reaching back to Plato, Aristotle, the German Romantics, Vico, and Cervantes and concluding with brilliant readings of Flaubert, Mallarmé, and Proust, Rancière demonstrates the uncontrollable democratic impulse lying at the heart of literature's still-vital capacity for reinvention.
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