Jacques Rancière presents "The Emancipated Spectator" at the opening of the 5th international summer academy in Frankfurt on August 20, 2004. The lecture is in english.

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Jacques Rancière is Emeritus Professor at the department of philosophy at University of Paris VIII. Known as an early disciple of Marxist philosopher Louis Althusser, he founded the journal, Les Revoltes Logiques. Best known as the author of La Nuit des prolétaires (1981) or The Night of Labor Workers, La Mésentente (1995) or Disagreement, Aux bords du politique (1998) or On the Shores of Politics and Le Partage du sensible. Esthétique et politique (2000).

" In order for the invitation to produce some effect of thought, the encounter must find its point of disagreement."