Chantal Mouffe

Ernesto Laclau

How is the present crisis of left-wing thought to be understood?

Towards a Radical Democratic Politics

Hegemony and Socialist Strategy

Slavoj Žižek

Judith Butler

Slavoj Zizek

Maxine Elliot Professor of Rhetoric Judith P Butler

At the heart of this experiment in intellectual synthesis is an effort to clarify differences of method and understanding within a common political trajectory. Through a series of exchanges on the value of the Hegelian and Lacanian legacies, the dilemmas of multiculturalism, and the political challenges of a global economy, Butler, Laclau, and ÄiPek lend fresh significance to the key philosophical categories of the last century while setting a new standard for debate on the Left. --Book Jacket.

Contemporary Dialogues on the Left

Contingency, Hegemony, Universality

A thought-provoking series brings together works by top left-wing intellectuals and covers everything from philosophy to politcal science to literary criticism.

A philosophical and political exploration of the construction of popular identities.

On Populist Reason

هژمونی و استراتژی سوسیالیستی

Richard Rorty

Simon Critchley

Jaques Derrida

First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Deconstruction and Pragmatism

Emancipation(s) (Radical Thinkers)

La ragione populista

Joan Copjec

Umbr(a)

por un nuevo horizonte de la política

Debates y combates

This work brings together trends of current thinking - Lacanian psychoanalysis, deconstruction, neo-Hegelianism and political philosophy - to illuminate the question of identity in the contemporary world. It also examines some of the new political identities which have emerged in recent decades.

The Making of Political Identities

In this hugely influential book, Laclau and Mouffe examine the workings of hegemony and contemporary social struggles, and their significance for democratic theory. With the emergence of new social and political identities, and the frequent attacks on Left theory for its essentialist underpinnings, Hegemony and Socialist Strategy remains as relevant as ever, positing a much- needed antidote against 'Third Way' attempts to overcome the opposition between Left and Right. "A brilliant tour de force of scholarship and argument." Marxism Today

The sublime object of ideology

In Emancipation(s), Ernesto Laclau addresses a central question: how have the changes of the last decade, together with the transformation in contemporary thought, altered the classical notion of "emancipation" as formulated since the Enlightenment? Our visions of the future and our expectations of emancipation, have been deeply affected by the changes of recent history: the end of the Cold War, the explosion of new ethnic and national identities, the social fragmentation under late capitalism, and the collapse of universal certainties in philosophy and social and historical thought. Laclau here begins to explore precisely how our visions of emancipation have been recast under these new conditions. Laclau examines the internal contradictions of the notion of "emancipation" as it emerged from the mainstream of modernity, as well as the relation between universalism and particularism which is inherent in it. He explores the making of political identities and the status of central notions in political theory such as "representation" and "power," focusing particularly on the work of Derrida and Rorty. Emancipation(s) is a significant contribution to the reshaping of radical political thought.

Emancipation(s)

New Reflections on the Revolution of Our Time

Ernesto Laclau is best known for co-authoring Hegemony and Socialist Strategy, with Chantal Mouffe. Politically active in the social and student movements of the 1960s, and a member of PSIN (Socialist Party of the National Left), Laclau’s oeuvre links the working class and new social movements. Rejecting Marxist economic determinism and the notion of class struggle, Laclau instead urged for a radical democracy where antagonisms could be expressed. Frequently described as post-Marxist, Laclau’s writings have focused on political movements. Politics and Ideology in Marxist Theory was Laclau’s first published work, where readers can trace the early formation of ideas that shaped the twentieth century.

Capitalism, Fascism, Populism

Politics and Ideology in Marxist Theory

Attraverso un serrato confronto con la filosofia strutturalista e la tradizione marxista, Ernesto Laclau indaga le produzioni retoriche e discorsive di cui la società è innervata, nella convinzione che esse non costituiscano soltanto i fondamenti dell’ordine sociale, bensì i dispositivi che articolano il campo entro cui ogni vita si trova da sempre messa in gioco. La scommessa che anima l’intero volume è che solo un’attenta disamina dell’intensità e della labilità di simili composizioni possa dischiudere un’inedita prospettiva di intervento politico.

Morte e resurrezione di una teoria dell’ideologia

Le fondamenta retoriche della società

El populismo, pr ctica pol tica hist ricamente desde ada, es pensado en este libro como una l gica social y como un modo de construir lo pol tico desde un enfoque que se aleja del punto de vista sociol gico. el autor, con base en el posestructuralismo y en la teor a lacaniana, analiza el populismo estadunidense, el kemalismo turco y el peronismo de la resistencia, y aporta una nueva dimensi n al an lisis de la lucha hegem nica y de la formaci n de las identidades sociales, fundamentales Para comprender los triunfos y fracasos de los movimientos populares.

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