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Anat Ascher Tel Aviv University, Department of Philosophy “Inner-Discord: Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s Politological Thought through Jacques Rancière’s Conceptual Prism”
Anat ASCHER | Cited by 3 | of The Open University of Israel, Tel Aviv (openu) | Read 4 publications | Contact Anat ASCHER.
In Akkadian texts, Asherah appears as Aširatu; though her exact role in the pantheon is unclear; as a separate goddess, Antu, was considered the wife of Anu, the god of Heaven. In contrast, ʿAshtart is believed to be linked to the Mesopotamian goddess Ishtar who is sometimes portrayed as the daughter of Anu.
Suplemento 20 (2015) 72 ANAT ASCHER raises the question of whether there can be a form of democracy that will allow for both diversity and participation. The challenge posed by this problematization was taken up most intriguingly in some recent political accounts, two of which are offered by Jean-Luc Nancy and Jacques Rancière.
Ascher argues that the invocation of otherness as unrepresentable elides the “moment” of politics as a “purely negative moment.” Rancière replaces the category of the unrepresentable with that of dissensus as a productive openness in the common sense of the polity.
2011 Issue No. 19 — Rancière: Politics, Art & Sense. Thinking the Unthinkable as a Form of Dissensus: The Case of the Witness. By Anat Ascher. Introduction. The word of the witness enjoys, so to speak, a rapidly increasing recognition in present times.
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