Post-Foundational Political Thought: Political Difference in Nancy, Lefort, Badiou and Laclau (Taking on the Political) - Hardcover

Marchart, Oliver

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ISBN 10: 074862497X ISBN 13: 9780748624973

Verlag: Edinburgh University Press, 2007

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There is a real need for a book like this. Marchart is a patient author. He explains things slowly and clearly to his reader. And what he explains is surely of interest to those of us who work in the interstices of political theory and Continental (especially post-Heideggerian) philosophy. -- Professor Linda Zerilli, Northwestern University This book will make a valuable contribution in engaging students and academics with important debates in contemporary political theory! it is a clear, well-written and sophisticated introduction, one that will be welcomed by students and university teachers alike. -- Dr Majid Yar, University of Kent at Canterbury Marchart is to be praised for rescuing the nation of post-foundationalism as well as political difference and the political itself. -- Anya Topolski Political Theory Marchart is to be praised for rescuing the notion of post-foundationalism from the accusations of nihilism and anti-foundationalism as well as political difference and the political itself. I see this book as ideally suited for close readings (perhaps by groups in philosophy or political theory) or as a secondary reading for courses that consider post-foundational political thought. There is a real need for a book like this. Marchart is a patient author. He explains things slowly and clearly to his reader. And what he explains is surely of interest to those of us who work in the interstices of political theory and Continental (especially post-Heideggerian) philosophy. This book will make a valuable contribution in engaging students and academics with important debates in contemporary political theory! it is a clear, well-written and sophisticated introduction, one that will be welcomed by students and university teachers alike. Marchart is to be praised for rescuing the nation of post-foundationalism as well as political difference and the political itself.

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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 2 Shapiro/ Cinematic Political Thought 0 7486 1289 0 Chambers/ Language and the Politics of Untimeliness 0 7486 1766 3 Bowman/ Post-Marxism Versus Cultural Studies 978 0 7486 1762 3 Simons/ Critical Political Theory in the Media Age 0 7486 1583 0

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2007
• ISBN 10: 074862497X
• ISBN 13: 9780748624973
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 208