Interventions in Contemporary Thought ─ History, Politics, Aesthetics

With a critical eye, Gabriel Rockhill guides you through complex debates in history, politics and aesthetics, giving you an overview of key issues and central figures, including Foucault, Derrida, Castoriadis, Badiou and Rancière.

Rockhill also engages in a nuanced exploration of recent work that calls into question the stereotype of 'prominent figures' and 'intellectual movements. Far from hiding behind towering figures of the intellectual world, Rockhill stakes out positions in relationship to them and formulates precise arguments in favour of a new understanding of the historical relationship between art and politics.

Gabriel Rockhill is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Villanova University, Directeur de programme at the College International de Philosophie in Paris, and Founder and Director of the Critical Theory Workshop at the Universite Paris Descartes.

He is the author of Radical History and the Politics of Art (Columbia University Press, 2014) andLogique de l'histoire: Pour une analytique des pratiques philosophiques (Editions Hermann, 2010). He co-edited and co-authored, with Alfredo Gomez-Muller,Politics of Culture and the Spirit of Critique: Dialogues (Columbia University Press, 2011), which has also been published in French and in Spanish. He co-edited and contributed toJacques Ranciere: History, Politics, Aesthetics (Duke University Press, 2009) andTechnologies de controle dans la mondialisation: Enjeux politiques, ethiques etesthetiques (Editions Kime, 2009). He also edited and translated, with John V. Garner, Cornelius Castoriadis'Postscript on Insignificance (Continuum Books, 2011), as well as Jacques Ranciere'sThe Politics of Aesthetics (Continuum Books, 2004).