Post-Foundational Political Thought: Political Difference in Nancy, Lefort, Badiou and Laclau - Rilegato

Marchart, Oliver

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ISBN 10: 074862497X ISBN 13: 9780748624973

Casa editrice: Edinburgh Univ Pr, 2007

Riassunto

A wide-ranging overview of the emergence of post-foundationalism and a survey of the work of its key contemporary exponents.This book presents the first systematic coverage of the conceptual difference between ‘politics’ (the practice of conventional politics: the political system or political forms of action) and ‘the political’ (a much more radical aspect which cannot be restricted to the realms of institutional politics). It is also the first introductory overview of post-foundationalism and the tradition of ‘left Heideggerianism’: the political thought of contemporary theorists who make frequent use of the idea of political difference: Jean-Luc Nancy, Claude Lefort, Alain Badiou and Ernesto Laclau.After an overview of current trends in social post-foundationalism and a genealogical chapter on the historical emergence of the difference between the concepts of ‘politics’ and ‘the political’, the work of individual theorists is presented and discussed at length. Individual chapters are presented on the political thought of Jean-Luc Nancy (including Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe), Claude Lefort, Alain Badiou, and Ernesto Laclau (including Chantal Mouffe).Overall the book offers an elaboration of the idea of a post-foundational conception of politics.Other titles in the Taking on the Political series: Valentine and Arditi/ Polemicisation 0 7486 1064 2Shapiro/ Cinematic Political Thought 0 7486 1289 0Chambers/ Language and the Politics of Untimeliness 0 7486 1766 3Bowman/ Post-Marxism Versus Cultural Studies 978 0 7486 1762 3Simons/ Critical Political Theory in the Media Age 0 7486 1583 0

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Oliver Marchart is Professor of Political Theory in the Department of Political Science at University of Vienna.

Oliver Marchart is Professor of Sociology at the University of Lucerne

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Edinburgh Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• ISBN 10: 074862497X
• ISBN 13: 9780748624973
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero di pagine: 198
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile