Editing Jacques Rancière (section)

== Political philosophy ==

=== Basic concepts ===
Rancière's philosophy began as markedly radical, anti-elitist, and aggressively anti-authoritarian, with a focus on comparing and contrasting aesthetics and politics that developed later in his career.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Harman|first=Graham|title=Art + Objects|publisher=Polity|year=2020|isbn=978-1-5095-1268-3|location=Cambridge, UK|pages=130|lccn=2019008491}}</ref> [[Gabriel Rockhill]] published an English glossary of Rancière's technical terms in 2004 as ''Appendix I'' to the English translation of Rancière's ''The Politics of Aesthetics'' with cross references to their explication in Rancière's major works. This glossary includes key terms in Rancière's philosophy that either he invented or uses in a radically different manner than their common usages elsewhere such as aesthetic regime, aesthetic unconscious, archi-politics, Community of Equals, ''demos'', ''dissensus'', distribution of the sensible, emancipation, the ethical regime of images, literarity, [[meta-politics]], ''ochlos'', para-politics, partition of the sensible, police order, the poetics of knowledge, post-democracy, regimes of art, silent speech, and ''le tort.''<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|last=Rancière|first=Jacques|title=The Politics of Aesthetics|publisher=Bloomsbury Academic|year=2004|isbn=978-1-7809-3535-5|editor-last=Rockhill|editor-first=Gabriel|location=London|language=English|translator-last=Rockhill|translator-first=Gabrel|orig-date=2000 in French}}</ref>

Rancière's [[political philosophy]] is characterized by a number of key concepts: politics, disagreement, police, equality, post-democracy:

* Politics — an activity the subject of which is equality.<ref name="Ed">The Edinburgh Dictionary of Continental Philosophy / John Protevi (ed.) – Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2005. {{isbn|0-7486-1715-9}}; {{isbn| 0-7486-1716-7}}</ref>
* Disagreement — an insurmountable conflict between people, which is inherent in human nature and manifests itself in a speech situation when one of the interlocutors understands and does not understand the other at the same time.
* Police — a symbolic ordering of the social, aimed at determining the share of participation or lack of participation in each part. The concept goes back to the work of [[Michel Foucault]] in the 1970s.<ref name="May">May, Todd. ''The Political Thought of Jacques Rancière: Creating Equality''. PA, Edinburgh: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2008. {{isbn|978-0-271-03449-2}}; {{isbn|978-0-271-03450-8}}</ref>
* Equality — a set of practices aimed at certifying the equality of anyone with anyone.
* [[Post-democracy]] — consensus system of [[modernity]] based on the identity (full compliance) of society and the individual and the consideration of society as the sum of its parts.