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The Method of Equality: An Answer to Some Questions jacques rancièreAmong the questions that have been raised about my work, it is possible to single out three main issues.First, how should we understand equality and its ''lessons''?Second, why did I set up the relationship between politics and aesthetics through the concept of a ''distribution of the sensible''?Third, how should my way of writing and arguing be characterized?I think that it is possible to epitomize at once the object, the stake, and the method of my research by focusing on an example.I shall borrow it from one of the little narratives which played a strategic role in my book The Nights of Labor.Those little narratives and my way of dealing with them can allow us to understand how ''aesthetics'' is involved in matters of equality and what a method of equality means, as regards the practice of writing.The text on which I shall focus was written by a nineteenth-century joiner, Gabriel Gauny, who left us the archives of his intellectual life.From the 1830s to the 1880s he wrote an impressive number of texts which remained unpublished.But this essay, which relates the workday

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