French philosopher who developed a radical egalitarianism — any hierarchy of intelligence or political capacity is a presupposition that reproduces inequality — and an aesthetic theory grounded in the distribution of the sensible.
The distribution of the sensible: politics is the contestation of who counts as having a voice in the community. The ignorant schoolmaster: teaching can presuppose equality of intelligence. Disagreement: authentic politics occurs only when those excluded from political speech claim their part — a rupture of consensus.
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