Table of Contents

Original Sources
Hypotheses
- The Politics of Literature
- Literary Misunderstanding
Figures
- The Putting to Death of Emma Bovary: Literature, Democracy and Medicine
- On the Battlefield: Tolstoy, Literature, History
- The Intruder: Mallarmé's Politics
- The Gay Science of Bertolt Brecht
- Borges and French Disease
Crossings
- The Truth Through the Window: Literary Truth, Freudian Truth
- The historian, literature and the genre of biography
- The Poet at the philosopher's: Mallarmé and Badiou

About the Author

Jacques Rancière, University of Paris (St. Denis)

Reviews

"By 'politics of literature' Ranciere means the interventionof the new democratic literature of modernity in the parceling outof space and time. There is more than one democracy at stake here,and no one has tracked their competing claims and contradictoryvocations more brilliantly than Ranciere. Every page of thisriveting work illuminates and challenges. This is Ranciere athis scintillating best." J.M. Bernstein, New School for Social Research