Rancier`s political philosophy is characterized by a series of key concepts: politics, disagreements, police, equality, post-democracy. The disagreement examines the various transformations of this «truth» regime and their consequences on practical policy. Ranciére then distinguishes what we mean by «democracy» from the practices of a consensual system to unravel the effects of the fashionable phrase «the end of politics. Its conclusions will be interesting for readers who deal with political issues, from the broadest to the most specific and the most localized. «Is there a political philosophy?» Thus begins this provocative book by one of the leading figures of continental thought. Here, Jacques Rancier introduces a new and very useful series of terms into the exasperated debate about political effectiveness and «the end of politics». From 1975 to 1981, he was a leading figure in the Journal The Logic Revolts. It was born in part from a philosophy seminar on the history of workers, organized by Ranciére in Vincennes, and brought together philosophers and historians for a radical political intervention in French thought after the uprisings of May 1968. [5] Its title in reference to Arthur Rimbaud`s poem Democracy («We Will Massacre The Logic Revolts» – «We Will Unmask All Logical Revolts») and to the revolutionary Maoist slogan of the culture of the Proletarian Left Group, some of whose members of The Logic Revolts were active[6] «On a reason to revolt» – «It is right to fly away».» [7] the Journal attempted to question and challenge historiographical and political norms relating to the representation of workers and social history.

The writing, with characters such as the feminist historian Genevieve Fraisse, Ranciére and others, tried to reveal the complexity, contradictions and diversity of «the thought and history from below». In its fifteen ordinary questions, the collective wanted to go beyond the historiographical norms in which the working class was historically treated, but without voice, homogeneous and pre-theoretical; instead, they allowed the workers to speak for themselves and seriously questioned their words. [8] In 2006, it was reported that the aesthetic theory of rancis had become a reference point in the visual arts, and Ranciére gave lectures at artistic events such as the Frieze Art Fair. [4] Former French presidential candidate Ségoléne Royal described Ranciére as her favourite philosopher. [13] Among the intellectuals influenced by his work, Gabriel Rockhill developed a new paradigm for reflecting on the historical relationship between aesthetics and politics, in close dialogue with Ranciére`s writings.