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Under the Name of Method: On Jacques Rancière's Presumptive Tautology
Author(s) -
BINGHAM CHARLES
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
journal of philosophy of education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.501
H-Index - 41
eISSN - 1467-9752
pISSN - 0309-8249
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9752.2009.00711.x
Subject(s) - tautology (logic) , scrutiny , enlightenment , philosophy , epistemology , style (visual arts) , sociology , computer science , art , literature , artificial intelligence , theology , autoepistemic logic , multimodal logic , description logic
This paper investigates the philosophical method of Jacques Rancière, with special attention to use of the ‘presumptive tautology’. It distinguishes between the Enlightenment conception of method as universally applicable technique, and the philosophical conception of method as a certain style that has been invented by a certain person. Ultimately, the paper puts the methodology of Rancière's The Ignorant Schoolmaster under scrutiny .