Jacques Rancière’de Entelektüelin İşlevinin Sorgulanması: “Cahil Hoca” Okulda
The Requestioning of function of intellectuel in Jacques Rancière: “Ignorant Schoolmaster at School”

Summary/Abstract: The question of the position of the intellectual has always been a topic of interest. In the contemporary period, 1968 Events caused the requestioning of the intellectual's position. Events of 1968, in which workers and students understood the essence of the situation they were in and took action without the need for the leadership of any intellectual, raised some questions on the position of the intellectual. In this period, Louis Althusser, Jean-Paul Sartre, Michel Foucault, Edward Said, and Jacques Rancière became contemporary thinkers who contemplated on the position of the intellectual. While Althusser, Sartre, and Said believed that the intellectual still occupies a position of privilege, Foucault wrote to criticize this privileged position. Rancière, on the other hand, completely distanced himself from all of those thinkers and argued that the intellectual does not have a privileged position at all. In his work The Ignorant Schoolmaster Rancière supports this claim, by breaking the links between knowledge and authority. Rancière, who brought forward the figure of the ignorant schoolmaster instead of the knowledgebased authority of a teacher, emphasizes individuals' own mental power in the pedagogical process. The pedagogy that he created with the very radical assumption of the equality of intelligence suggests that the teacher has no effective role in the student's learning. In his works such as The Philosopher and His Poor and The Emancipated Spectator, he focuses on the assumption that many distinctions are hypothetical. Rejecting the superiority and inferiority brought about by these distinctions, Rancière sees equality as a preliminary assumption rather than the pedagogical, political, or artistic authorities. In this proposed idea of equality, there is no privileged place for the intellectual.

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