Jacques Rancière. Contra-historias estéticas

Abstract

This paper aims to define terms in which the aesthetic thought of Jacques Rancière is a program to follow, a new mode of aesthetic reflection dedicated to both, reviewing the history of modern art and self-understanding of aesthetics. For that, this article focuses on analysing the rewriting of the artistic modernity undertaken by Rancière, noting what his conceptual axes and tools are. Furthermore, proposing the thesis that the aesthetic, as formulated in understandable terms in the "regime of identification of art", is determined to turn its concepts into values.