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Author Marchart, Oliver.

Title Post-foundational political thought : political difference in Nancy, Lefort, Badiou and Laclau / Oliver Marchart.

Publication Info. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2007]
©2007

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 198 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Taking on the political
Taking on the political (Edinburgh, Scotland)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-191) and index.
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 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.
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Subject Political science -- Philosophy.
Political science -- Philosophy.
Continental philosophy.
Continental philosophy.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Marchart, Oliver. Post-foundational political thought. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, ©2007 074862497X 0748624988 (OCoLC)86167670
ISBN 9780748630684 (electronic book)
0748630686 (electronic book)
9780748624973 (hardback)
074862497X (hardback)
0748624988 (paperback)
9780748624980 (paperback)