248 Pages
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Routledge
246 Pages
by
Routledge
246 Pages
by
Routledge
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Laclau and Mouffe: The Radical Democratic Imaginary is the first full-length overview of the important work of Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe. Anna Marie Smith clearly shows how Laclau and Mouffe's work has brought Gramscian, poststructuralist and psychoanalytic perspectives to revitalize traditional political theory. With clarity and insight, she shows how they have constructed a highly... Read more
INTRODUCTION; Chapter 1 RETRIEVING DEMOCRACY; Chapter 2 ESSENTIALISM, NON-ESSENTIALISM AND DEMOCRATIC LEADERSHIP; Chapter 3 SUBJECT POSITIONS, ARTICULATION AND THE SUBVERSION OF ESSENTIALISM; Chapter 4 SELF-DETERMINATION, COMMUNITY AND CITIZENSHIP; Chapter 5 POWER AND HEGEMONY; CONCLUSION; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX;
Biography
Anna Marie Smith is Assistant Professor of Government at Cornell University. She is the author of New Right Discourse on Race and Sexuality: Britain 1968–1990.
'an excellent job of explaining an often obscure body of work using case studies and concrete examples to clarify difficult theoretical points.' - New Formations
'an important contribution to the debates at the centre of contemporary political theory'
