May 68's effects in Jacques Rancière’s path: The Althusserian dichotomy between science and ideology questioned 1 2 3

Abstract

After the eruption of May 68, the dichotomy between scientific knowledge and ideology, as Althusserians supported, is jeopardized in favor of Jacques Rancière’s valuing of the 1960s boiling political movements. In this essay, we analyze this moment of his path, in which the author rephrases his understanding of the meaning of political revolt and the conception of knowledge. This debate is not circumstantial in Rancière’s work. It first appears as a question crossing his thought and is still present in his current writings: the refusal to divide knowledge and its intellectual hierarchies and the suspicion towards a conception that politics would require theory as a prerequisite.

Keywords Rancière; Althusser; science; ideology; politics