Post-foundational political thought : political difference in Nancy, Lefort, Badiou and Laclau /
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 polit...
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| Series: | Taking on the political (Edinburgh, Scotland)
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Table of 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.