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Title

Claude Lefort : thinker of the political / edited by Martín Plot.

Publication

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.

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Additional Authors

• Plot, Martøn.
• Plot, Martín.

Description

xiv, 245 pages; 23 cm.

Summary

"It is impossible to overstate the ways in which Claude Lefort has influenced democratic theorizing over the past three decades. With the impact he has had on some of the 20th and 21st Centuries most notable and important Political Theorists from Ernesto Laclau, Chantal Mouffe andSlavoj Zizek to Jacques Rancière, Andrew Arato and Jean Cohen, Lefort's thought has become both radical and liberal democracy's obligatory reference and unparalleled knot of confluence. This volume brings together scholars from around the world and offers an engaging and comprehensive investigation of Lefort's intellectual dialogues and debates, his engagement with the most relevant global political events of the past decades, and his impact on current innovations in continental political and social theory. As a result this book a vital reference point for students and scholars of Claude Lefort as well as of radical and liberal democracy in general."--Publisher's website.

Series Statement

Critical explorations in contemporary political thought series

Uniform Title

Critical explorations in contemporary political thought series.

Subject

• Lefort, Claude
• Political science > Philosophy
• Democracy

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Foreword / Bernard Flynn -- Acknowledgements -- Note to Contributors -- Introduction / Martín Plot -- Part I: Claude Lefort, a close reader: Intellectual influences and dialogues. Claude Lefort: A Political Biography / Dick Howard ; Lefort as Phenomenologist of the Political / Bernard Flynn ; Lefort and Machiavelli / Newton Bignotto ; Claude Lefort, Political Anthropology, and Symbolic Division / Samuel Moyn ; Claude Lefort as Reader of Leo Strauss / Claudia Hilb. -- Part II: Interpreting the political: events and political thought. Claude Lefort, the Practice and Thought of Disincorporation / Giles Bataillon ; The Style Claude Lefort / Michael B. Smith ; Lefort, the Philosopher of 1989 / Andrew Arato ; Rethinking the Politics of Human Rights and Democracy with and beyond Claude Lefort / Jean Cohen ; Lefort and Tocqueville on the Possibility of Democratic Despotism / Steven Bilakovics. -- Part III: Symbolic mutations: Lefort's nfluence in contemporary democratic theory. Thinking Democracy Beyond Regimes: 'Untangling Political Analysis from the Nation-State / Marc G. Doucet ; Lefort and the Symbolic Dimension / Warren Breckman ; Democracy Beyond the Political / Brian Singer ; Lefort and the Fate of Radical Democracy / Jeremy Valentine ; The Advent of the Aesthetico-Political / Martín Plot.

ISBN

• 9780230375574
• 023037557X

LCCN

^^2013021716

OCLC

• 829386944
• SCSB-11475035

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library