Jacques Rancière 
Staging the People 
The Proletarian and His Double

These essays from the 1970s mark the inception of the distinctive project that Jacques Ranci�re has pursued across forty years, with four interwoven themes: the study of working-class identity, of its philosophical interpretation, of ‚heretical‘ knowledge and of the relationship between work and leisure.

Über den Autor

Jacques Ranci�re is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris-VIII. His books include The Politics of Aesthetics, On the Shores of Politics, Short Voyages to the Land of the People, The Nights of Labor, Staging the People, and The Emancipated Spectator.