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Ernesto Laclau - Post-Marxism, Populism and Critique (Paperback)
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Ernesto Laclau - Post-Marxism, Populism and Critique (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Innovators in Political Theory
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Ernesto Laclau has blazed a unique trail in political theory and
philosophy since the early 1970s. In so doing, he has articulated a
range of philosophical and theoretical currents into a coherent
alternative to mainstream models and practices of conducting social
and political science. The editors have focused on work in three
key areas: Post-Marxist Political Theory: Discourse, Hegemony,
Signification Laclau has developed an original conception of
post-Marxist political theory that is grounded on a materialist
theory of discourse. The latter is constructed from a range of
theoretical and philosophical sources, including poststructuralism,
psychoanalysis, linguistic theory and post-analytical philosophy.
The centerpiece of this approach is the category of hegemony, which
develops Antonio Gramsci's seminal contribution to Marxist theory,
and is in turn connected to a web of related concepts, including
articulation, dislocation, the logics of equivalence and
difference, political identification, myth and social imaginary.
These ideas have informed a number of empirical and theoretical
studies associated with the Essex School of Discourse Theory.
Analyzing Populism A central concern of Laclau's writings has been
the question of populism, both in Latin America where hebegan his
interrogation of the phenomenon (especially the experience of
Peronism), and then in his engagement with the "new social
movements" and socialist strategy more generally. The concept of
populism becomes a general way of exploring the "primacy of
politics" in society. Critical Engagements Laclau is first and
foremost an engaged intellectual who has consistently sought to
theorize contemporary events and reality, and to debate with the
leading intellectual figures of the day, with respect to questions
of political principle and strategy. His recent debates with Judith
Butler and Slavoj Zizek in Contingency, Hegemony, Universality:
Contemporary Dialogues on the Left, published in 2011 (London:
Verso), exemplify this critical ethos. He continues to elaborate
his approach by challenging and articulating related approaches,
and by situating his work in connection to the democratic Left.
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