This graduate seminar will focus on the writings of Jacques Ranciere. As one of the leading Continental philosophers, Ranciere writes widely on arts, literature, film, pedagogy, and politics with a theoretical rigor that challenges the classical idea of philosophy and with a critical commitment that aims at a revolutionary change to realize equality and democracy. A central issue in his thought is the relation between politics and aesthetics. Instead of being defined as the judgment of beauty in the appreciation of arts, aesthetics is radicalized by him as a new sensible form that incessantly enacts a disagreement through a process of political subjectification over the dominant order of the “distribution of the sensible.” The seminar will start with his central concept of “the politics of the aesthetics” to explore his thinking on the theory of subject, the aesthetic regime of art, the class and gender issues in late modernity.