AGAMBEN Giorgio MARRAMAO Giacomo RANCI RE Jacques SLOTERDIJK Peter Pol Tica

on the scene of this contentious part of society – the “people” – that institutes the political community as a community of contention. Politics proceeds, accordingly, from a logic of contention and disagree‑ ment, and it is therefore disconnected from consensual debate. Thus, Rancière compels us to think about the meaning of depoli‑ tization, at a time when all political conflict appears to be emp‑ tied of content in favour of cultural differences or annulled by economic determinism. The Althusserian influence that characterizes Rancière’s ear‑ lier work was to be broken when he criticized Althusser’s theory of ideology (The lesson of Althusser, 1974). But although he is one of the philosophers who has contributed the most to character‑ ize the configuration of political thought beyond Marxism, he al‑ ways urges us not to forget Marx, so as not to run the risk of for‑ getting the scene of the political. The political forms of equality, the theory of intellectual emancipation, the opposition politics/ police, and their modes of emergence in contemporary public life, the problematic notion of democracy are some of its main in‑ terests. In recent years, Rancière has made important incursions into aesthetics, literature (both literary writing and literature as an institution), and film. In the recent stages of his work, Ran‑ cière has added to his “politics” an “aesthetics”, which has made him one of the major contemporary philosophers in the field criticism of…