Post-foundational political thought: political difference in Nancy, Lefort, Badiou and Laclau
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Main Author: Marchart, Oliver (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press c2007
Series:Taking on the political (Edinburgh, Scotland)
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Item Description:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002
Includes bibliographical references (p. [179]-191) and index
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
The contours of 'Left Heideggerianism': post-foundationalism and necessary contingency -- Politics and the political: genealogy of a conceptual difference -- Retracing the political difference: Jean-Luc Nancy -- The Machiavellian moment re-theorized: Claude Lefort -- The state and the politics of truth: Alain Badiou -- The political and the impossibility of society: Ernesto Laclau -- Founding post-foundationalism: a political ontology
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (viii, 198 p.)
ISBN:0748630686
9780748630684

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