Jacques Ranciere – Krochmalný Ondřej (2021)

Jacques Rancière (1940) is a French philosopher primarily concerned with questions of politics and aesthetics. In the 1960s, he was among the students and collaborators of the Marxist theorist Louis Althusser, from whose circle emerged the influential collection Lire le Capital (Reading Capital), to which Rancière contributed. At the turn of the 1960s and 1970s, Rancière's thinking began to take on a distinctive character. The issue of equality gradually became central to his interests, becoming a permanent part and key element of his thought. The monograph Jacques Rancière focuses primarily on Rancière's political and aesthetic theory, but also on the historical context of his thinking and his relationship to the works of some of his contemporaries, such as the philosophy of Jean-François Lyotard or Alain Badiou. Ondřej Krochmalný studied philosophy at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Ostrava and the Faculty of Education of Charles University. He has published in journals such as Analogon and A2. He is engaged in 20th-century continental thought and also works on translation (Alain Badiou, Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, Jacques Rancière).