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Post-foundational political thought : political difference in Nancy, Lefort, Badiou and Laclau / Oliver Marchart.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Marchart, Oliver.
- Series:
- Taking on the political (Edinburgh, Scotland)
- Taking on the political
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nancy, Jean-Luc.
- Lefort, Claude.
- Badiou, Alain.
- Laclau, Ernesto.
- Political science--Philosophy.
- Political science.
- Continental philosophy.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (209 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, c2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- Summary:
- 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 ove
- Contents:
- Contents; Expanded Contents List; Introduction: On the Absent Ground of the Social; Chapter 1 - The Contours of 'Left Heideggerianism': Post-Foundationalism and Necessary Contingency; Chapter 2 - Politics and the Political: Genealogy of a Conceptual Difference; Chapter 3 - Retracing the Political Difference: Jean-Luc Nancy; Chapter 4 - The Machiavellian Moment Re-Theorized: Claude Lefort; Chapter 5 - The State and the Politics of Truth: Alain Badiou; Chapter 6 - The Political and the Impossibility of Society: Ernesto Laclau; Chapter 7 - Founding Post-Foundationalism: A Political Ontology
- BibliographyIndex
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [179]-191) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786610953158
- 9780748672066
- 0748672060
- 9781280953156
- 1280953152
- 9780748630684
- 0748630686
- OCLC:
- 476101730
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