Comprehensive presentation of Jacques Rancière’s thought on relations between politics and literature in the context of different philosophical currents (Louis Althusser, Michel Foucault, Pierre Bourdieu, Jean-François Lyotard) and world literature masterpieces (Gustav Flaubert, Max Jacob, Bertold Brecht, Vladimir Nabokov and Philip Roth).
Jerzy Franczak is an accomplished writer and academic, currently serving as a professor at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow. He has published numerous novels, collections of short stories, essays, and studies on philosophy and literature. His main research areas are contemporary critical thought, the history of the avant-garde, and modernist art.