In this new edition of a classic, The Intellectual and His People, Jacques Rancière analyzes a question key to struggle: How does the intellectual relate to the masses they theorize about and, ultimately, for? With inciveness and originality, Rancière rips apart conventions of radicalism through explorations of Foucault and Sartre, the artistic avant-garde and the political and cultural issues of the moment that will allow us to better face our future.