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Post-Foundational Political Thought: Political Difference in Nancy, Lefort, Badiou and Laclau

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Post-Foundational Political Thought: Political Difference in Nancy, Lefort, Badiou and Laclau

Author(s)

Oliver Marchart

Edition
ISBN

9780748630684, 9780748624980

Publisher

Edinburgh University Press

Format

PDF and EPUB

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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.