DET MULIGES KUNST OG DET UMULIGES POLITIK OM JACQUES RANCIÈRES DISKUSSION AF LITTERATUR OG POLITIK SOM BIDRAG TIL POLITISK HISTORIE ILLUSTRERET AF ET DANSK EKSEMPEL

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ABSTRACT

The art of the possible and the politics of the impossible:
On Jacques Rancière’s discussion of literature and politics as
a contribution to political history illustrated by a Danish example

The article discusses the French philosopher Jacques Rancière’s approach to the study of the relationship between politics and literature. Rancière perceives politics and literature as part of a still ongoing process of creating a common space of society through new ways in which words and things connect with each other. Literature participates in the reframing of the way problems have been posed and redefines what can be seen and said. The article considers, based on texts by the Danish author Vita Andersen, possibilities and problems of using Rancière’s ideas and thus involve literary texts in the study of political history.