The Philosopher and His Poor
The Philosopher and His Poor
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哲学家和他的穷人
DOI：
10.1057/palgrave.cpt.9300223
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发表时间：
2006
影响因子：
1.8
通讯作者：
A. Thomson
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作者：
A. Thomson
为什么哲学家很少是民主主义者？雅克·德里达在《航行》（2003）中问道。在《哲学家和他的穷人》（The Philosopher and His Poor，1983）中，雅克·朗西埃（Jacques Ranciere）对同一个问题给出了答案。哲学家把自己同穷人区分开来，思想家同劳动者区分开来。哲学是建立在一种区分原则之上的，甚至《区分》的作者也坚持这种原则;从柏拉图到布迪厄，社会理论通过拒绝承认鞋匠也可能走上公共舞台的可能性而废除了政治。那些熟悉兰谢尔作品的人会在这里认识到一个早期的政治主题纲要，这些主题在最近的书中处理，如《政治和分歧的海岸》。然而，《哲学家和他的穷人》对这些读者的价值不仅仅在于系谱学的基础上;在本书开篇的柏拉图的阅读中，存在着作者政治和美学著作的共同基础，这些著作的轨迹在最近几年似乎有些分歧。出于同样的原因，那些新的朗西埃将发现这是一个有益的介绍。
Why have so few philosophers been democrats?, asks Jacques Derrida in Voyous (2003). In The Philosopher and His Poor, first published in French 20 years prior to Voyous (1983), and now available in English translation, Jacques Ranciere sketches an answer to the same question. The philosopher divides himself from his poor, the thinker from the labourer. Philosophy is founded in a principle of distinction that is maintained even by the author of Distinction; from Plato to Bourdieu, social theory abolishes politics by refusing to recognize the possibility that the shoemaker might also take to the public stage. Those familiar with Ranciere’s work will recognize here an early outline of political themes dealt with in more recent books such as The Shores of Politics and Disagreement. The Philosopher and His Poor will be of value to such readers on more than merely genealogical grounds, however; in the reading of Plato which opens the book lies the common ground for the author’s political and aesthetic writings, whose trajectories might appear to have diverged somewhat in recent years. For the same reason, those new to Ranciere will find this a helpful introduction.