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Power and Politics in Poststructuralist Thought New Theories of the Political

By Saul Newman Copyright 2005
192 Pages
by Routledge

192 Pages
by Routledge

192 Pages
by Routledge

This book explores the impact of poststructuralism on contemporary political theory by focussing on problems and issues central to politics today. Drawing on the theoretical concerns brought to light by the ‘poststructuralist’ thinkers Foucault, Derrida, Lacan, Deleuze and Max Stirner, Newman provides a critical examination of new developments in contemporary political theory: post-Marxism,... Read more

1. Politics of the Ego: Stirner’s Critique of Liberalism  2. Ressentiment and Radical Politics  3. New Reflections on the Theory of Power: A Lacanian Perspective  4. Spectres of Stirner: A Contemporary Critique of Ideology  5. Derrida’s Deconstruction of Authority  6. On the Politics of Violence: Terror, Sovereignty and Law 7. Spectres of the Uncanny: the ‘Return of the Repressed’ in Politics  8. Towards a Poststructuralist Politics of Universality  Conclusion

Biography

Saul Newman is a Research Fellow at UWA and a Lecturer in Politics at Edith Cowan University, Western Australia. His research focuses on contemporary and Continental political and social theory. He is the author of From Bakunin to Lacan: Anti-authoritarianism and the Dislocation of Power (Lexington 2001).