Jacques Rancière is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris (St. Denis).

* Introduction * Politics of Aesthetics * Aesthetics as Politics * Problems and Transformations of Critical Art * The Antinomies of Modernism * Alain Badiou''s Inaesthetics: the Torsions of Modernism * Lyotard and the Aesthetics of the Sublime: A Counter-reading of Kant * The Ethical Turn in Aesthetics and Politics