Jacques Rancière is known in the German-speaking world for his politically aesthetic writings on art and cinema. "The Night of the Proletarians" further showcases him as a researcher who has engaged early on with the archives and problem areas of social history. In this comprehensive volume, he focuses on the dreams, hopes, and perspectives of those workers who became active since the French July Revolution of 1830, when bourgeois and early industrial proletarians first rose against the restoration of the Ancien Régime. Rancière analyzes the writings and experiences of those who dared to complement their assigned position as proletarians with the audacity of their revolutionary thinking. "Who are they? A few dozen, a few hundred proletarians who were around twenty years old in 1830 and who...