Abstract

The chapter traces the influences of Karl Marx's social theory on the work of Jacque Ranciere, and, in particular, a reading of Marx's work that situates value and the value-form as a critical political category. Ranciere's early work is recovered as a source for the development of what has come to be known as a 'new reading of Marx', based on the significance of the value-form, with important insights into what what constitutes intellectual emancipation in formal and informal education settings.